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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5804, 8 May 1912, Page 3

A cargo of sacks is under order from Calcutta for a South Island firm, who have found the importation necessary to overcome the shortage which has existed all over the grain districts of the South Isltnd during the past season. The cargo will arrive next week, and already ordei'3 have been received for the whole consignment. In the Taranski district picture entertainments are being utilised to provide funds for uniforms and other expenses of the Boy Scouts, and aleo to enable the boys to visit Wellington to welcome their chief, General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who shortly arrives on a tour of the Dominion. The total area of land leased in the Dominion on renewable lease under tie Land for Settlement Act is 266,465 acres, with a capital value of £1,315,----542 at time of leasing. A movement is on foot to inaugurate a Fruitgrowers' Association in the Northern Wairoa. An effort is also being made to form a syndicate to take up one thousand acres and put the resources of the distri- ts for orcharding to a practical test. Wolfe's Schnapps is a stimulant that will brace you up and stand by you.