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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 26, 31 January 1921, Page 4

I The Takapuna Jockey Club concluded its Summer meeting at the North Shore on Saturday, in fine weather and with a record attendance. The principal event of the day, the Ta-kapuna Jockey Club Handicap was won-by the locally owned Landslide, while the next event of importance, the Anniversary Welter, went to Gold Kip. Speculation wae very : brisk: the sum of £88,317 was passed through the machines, making a total for the meeting of f 144,644, an increase of £11,307 over last year. A party of settlers, at request of the Mangakahu Valley Settlers' Associa- ] tion. went on a four-days' expedition into virgin bush country between the Main j Trunk line and Lake Taupo, starting , from Ongaruc last Wednesday and returning to Taumarunui on Saturday. The Government placed provisional restrictions upon a block of 120,000 acres for a State forest, and a protest was made by Taumarunui and Mangakahu Valley ' I settlers. 'I he Minister of Lands replied i that departmental officials reported that jthe area was unsuitable for settlement. ' The Settlers' Association, after blazing a trail, propose? to invite the Minister to ■ see the country himself. The Depart- ' ment states that the land is mountainous and broken, but the party found very | easy country, with occasional broken i ! .fluffs which took up very little land, ana I when" scaled some very tine plateaux were ; I traversed, all being ploughable. The j land consisted of dark chocolate loam. Several good kahikatea swamps were discovered, and the land is watered by j numerous streams, making it an ideal I I grazing country. Mr. A. IT. Cockayne, Chief Government Kiologist. speaking at the closing function in connection with the teaohers' farm school at Rua'kura, sa : d th« Department owed Mr. J. P, Kalaugher a debt of gratitude for showing it what could be accomplished fry the schools. The success of Ins organisation, however, was very largely due to Mr. Green, ' without whose sympathetic assistance the schools could not have been carried | on. The schools ■were having a very i considerable influence in moulding the' future .policy of the farm, which would soon be put on a sound basis for a very considerable extension of such work as I has been carried out there during the • past week. He thought he wa> givinz] avray no secret in saying that it was the : ntention of the department to establish at Ruakura a properly ■ equipped farm school for the teac.iing of tlw very best practices in modern , agriculture, and at which teachers and 1 farmers could take periodica , sin.rtj tourses. In this manner its value from ■ an educational aspect would be greatly advanced. Master of the pulpit at 21. Hear lecture on C. H. Spuxgeon at Baptist Taber-1 nacle to-night. — (Ad.! i Millinery bargains! All our beauti- | ful model"hats, 46/6 to 65.', now 19/11, ■25/6, a>t Tudehope'e sale. Symonds Street, i (Ad.) "Kine" is a valuable food of high dietic value. That is why Smeeton's, ) Ltd., sell it.—(Ad.) ' | Tabernacle to-night at 7.30. Come and hear the story of the wonderful 40 years' ■ ministry of Chas. Haddon Spurgeon. Ad.' Sale b&rguins! An assortment of , spra-ys, to 2/6, now 1/: rosebud trails, 3/ti, now 1/6.—Tudehojx?'*, Syjnond* , Street.—(Ad. _, ' ' j<