MAUNGATEPARU.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15308, 8 August 1923, Page 6

MAUNGATEPARU.

The Weather. After a week ol' heavy frosts, and warm sunny days, the weather has again became showery and uncertain. The many who have been looking forward to a spell of fine weather, to allow of their getting on with topdressing and ground preparations are keenly disappointed, for owing to the continuous rainfall throughout the winter months, the new grasses (on which so many depend for their earl} spring feed) was in many cases rendered Practically useless. The Roads.

The main Morrinsville-Tahuna Road is in truth non-existing, it is but a sea of mud from fence to fence, and the sides and centre alike are deep ruls, which it is almost impossible to avoid, and many of them are more than ’axle deep. The settlers have asked the Piako County Council to .-all a meeting of all ratepayers interested, With the view of raising a special loan, sufficiently large to allow of a permanent road being made. It is lo he hoped that the Council will act in time, to have all financial and other arrangements made, so as the work may be proceeded with during the summer and autumn; for experience goes to prove that any interference in the iatcr season is quite useless. Soldiers’ Land, Revaluation. Many of the soldier settlers, who have for some months past understood that the Government Commission which visited every section on the settlement some months back, was really a special revaluation commission, arc disappointed to learn that it was merely gathering data, for Government advisory purposes; but they may glean some comfort from the liberal scope allowed for, in Mr Massey’s new amendment Act, which has already passed its first reading in the House. Electric Power. Practically the whole of the main road settlers and also some of the by-road have now the power turned on, and many arc using it to drive their milking “plants," a purpose for which it is extremely useful, and its cleanliness, saving of space, and ever readiness to start Places it far in advance of the oil engine.