OTOROHANGA NEWS
TOPICS OF THE HOUR. ITEMS OF INTEREST. (Our Resident Representative.) District Maoris predict an unusually early spring. In anticipation they are_ already turning over the ground for early potato crops. For the first time in many years, natives of the Honikiwi, Turitea and Otewa districts, are preparing ground for sowing wheat, encouraged, no doubt, by the splendid results achieved by the Te Kumi natives last year. Numbers of Southern dairymen are looking over the lands of the Northern King Country witr a view to acquiring small holdings. Many of these men have been sharemilking in Taranaki and Manawatu districts. The first representative contest of the season eventuated at Otorohanga on Saturday in the presence of an unusually large gathering of spectators, when Maniapoto and Otorohanga representatives fought out a Stirling contest. The Maniapoto's won by 29 to nil. The curtain raiser, between C. and B. juniors, was won by the former by 3 to nil. Otorohanga and Maniapoto juniors met at Te Kuiti, the latter winning by 31 to 6. Rural ratepayers, here, are interesting themselves in a concerted movement to. bring about the elimination of .the unnecessary damage done to district roads through the overloading of cream carriers..
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3190, 14 June 1932, Page 5
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