WAIROA NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 276, 30 November 1901, Page 3

WAIROA NOTES.

(\A r airoa Guardian.)

Lv connection with the milk supply from Tiniroto it is of importance to note that there is abundant water supply there, and a creamery can bo driven by water power, which means a saving in fuel of from £IOO to £l5O per annum. A "reat change came over the dairy meeting on Saturday night when the oaramountey of the milk-suppliers was established. Those who were disguisedly talking against a dairy factory—and had not a cow to offer—completely subsided. A well-known Wairoa county sheepfarmer visited Cooper's Morere Hotel Springs recently, and was greeted with the query : “ What, you here again ?” “ Yes,” was the reply, “ I have just finished shearing, and dipping will soon commence, so I thought I would try Cooper’s dip first 1” Mr J. Hunter Brown is arranging with

Mr Leipst, as soon as lie has finished boring at Opoutaina, to sink three or four bores at Tuhara and W airoa. Any other settlers desirous of sinking wells should communicate with Mr Brown, as the more borin'’’ there is to be done the cheaper the rate will be. We trust an effort will be made to sink the Wairoa well to 2000 Owin'’ to the drought and low prices for stock, 0000 sheep have recently been sent from Hawke’s Bay to Wairoa . What a change! Only a few years ago Wairoa •was considered the ultima thule of Aew Zealand and anything but good sheep countrv, but now while the southern par ■ of Hawke’s Bay is as brown as the orthodox Scotch heather, our lulls are still green, and good crops of grass are falling beneath the mowing machine.