NUHAKA NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1360, 23 January 1905, Page 3

NUHAKA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) A meeting of tho Nuhaka branoh of the Farmers’ Union was held at Morare on 14th inst. Mr Proudlock presided. Tho [ do-nothing policy of the Waikokopu Harbour Board was generally aDd strongly condemned. No evidence was apparont of any attempt to proceed with any one of the necessary works. Tho result of this apathy was to cause inconvenienoe, annoyance and loss to tho settlers of the district. The ancient and ever recurring subject of laok of storage was descanted upon, aud will without doubt ariso again ad iufinitum at future meetings of the club Finally it was resolved that tbo erection if a shed and the construction of some 14 chains of tramway wero subjects that -huuld be deferred for further considera ion at tho next monthly meeting. It was ieeided to request tho uuctioueors to provide drinking troughs for the use of tbo -tuck at tho Matawhoro saleyards. Con--iderabie discussion ensued on the expediency of forming a poition of the riding ,U) >1 Read Board District. The manage,n • i of ihc road work by the County untul was tbo subject of uiucb adverse oi cisiu. Wiih the viesv of increasing the

mu tier t.i members of this branch cf the Union, it was proposed to have a farmers’ y.enic at some period in the month of March, and the following members were appointed a working committee to make necessary arrangements, Messrs Tail), Block, Taylor, Shaw, and tho secretary. ’The shearing operations are now well over and the wool safely housed, but tho delay in getting it away from the sheds to some port is a cause of general uneasiness, especially at this season of the year when bush fires are so generally in evidence, but many of the settlers have insured their clips. The bush burning is always a cause of much anxiety hereabouts. If the season ba unfavorable for the spread of the fire through the felled bush the result may be very disastrous to the working settler, and if the season be favorable that agency over which no control can be exercised —the wind —-may drive the fire with too much force or in the wrong direction, equally causes of daDger or destruction to his interests. Happily this season these dangers so far have been almost entire inoperative, and the Nuhaka settlers have been unusually fortunate in getting good barns,on which they may be congratulated,, for the new year has commenced with beneficent auguries.