TAHUNA.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8096, 7 January 1907, Page 2

TAHUNA.

- * —— Kuoii Ouu Own' Cohiiesi'ondknt. It has been vi.'ry quiet ia the neighbourhood during the last week as nearly everyone has been away hoiidav-muking, but now they are returning the settlement looks i little more lively, and the mills are in full swiptr again. Thcrtj are no than four flax mills within «ix mi'e-: of one another, and 1 believe there are two more to be erect'd. Flaxmills are an thick here as milk factorii s are in 'iaranaki. There is also a sawmill to bi> errcttd on tfe Piako river. The river has been very low and the b'Hts had si a.a troubla to get up for the ' ri''re last wo'k, but the late rains have h>id I a good eifect on it. The rain was badly I wanted here, and everything looks fresh a'id green again. Tne yc uag swedes have lieen given a start. There have bean several changos of property 1 itely, and there have bean several I laß-ahunters iiare. Ihe (iovernuient is going to drain a br ck. of the swamp and the work will start in a icw days. Doubtless, when the lan ',

whLi h very good, is thrown op-.-ij, there will be pleuty of applicants. The road to Waitwui is also to he firmed. The settlement i 3 f'irf/iDtr ahead, and there are a great rxiHuy green pitches appearing amung the shrub. Mc Page, who took over Mr Palmer's place, is tr.arriag i, gfeat show, a a he has a large patch for swedes, and all the fences renewed, and he has also a stook of timber to bniid a new house. Since thH fire at the Wf.itanni fiixmill, there has not been mno'i doing but '•'"v hope to get running sgain fsooa. There hag beau a men f or gome time clearing tufi scrub off the unformed portion of the road, so we hope to have [ the worst portions done before the winter, j What *3 n-ally aped is a now school I house Jitis a great pity something is not | done, for the children will have to face I another winter in that old sued and it is ! not lit for a school. We are to hive a telephone if the I neimsnry guarantee can bj riiaHd, and 1 j U'J not sou vvby it should not he, as this is getting a large <lis>ti ict. We also uxp-ct to j gut a 1.11-Weekly mail service, which ia ■ Übvdtji LUOct.