LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9028, 6 November 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The New Zealand Loan and .Mercantile Agency Co. 5 Ltd., will hold a stock sale at the Judea yards on Thursday, the 12th inst., when 300 head of cattle will be offered. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received tire following cable fro mtlteir London office', dated November 4: — Butter — 214'/-,'216/-; extremely quiet. Australian, 200/-; Danish, 213 y-. Cheese — No supplies. New Zealand leads the world in prison methods. One day recently the inmates of the Girls’ Borstal Institution at Point Halswell, Wellington, were taken for a picnic, the whole establishment being closed from 10 a.m. to 5.30 P.m. This is probably the first such function in prison history. ‘‘lf you buy a car you must also buy a road for it,” said Mr W. Hinchey at a meeting of electors (says the Southland Times). He said that townspeople ran their cars on roads which the farmers maintained, and in consequence should contribute more to the road’s upkeep than at present. j A cable from Suva states that the | Niagara, ha-s arrived from Vancouver, . and sails at noon for Auckland. An experienced sheep farmer esti- | mates that the wet and backward seaI son will cause a shortage of 2fb per 1 fleece (.reports the Southland Daily J Nows). Ho reckons the North Island * will lie 00,000 bales short and the South 1.0.000. New potatoes grown in Oamaru were sold at auction the other day for "the first time this season (say* the Oamaru Mail). The potatoes, which came from a Newbmough garden and which (were of excel’out quality and large [ sizr-. realised 8d to B|d per lb, which is 'i equivalent to over £7O per ton. j A resident of Kapouga, Para- j | naki. decided in fop liis piniis in- ! j siernis trees in the neighbourhood j of jlie eloc!rival, high-tension lines. ! and bis expo hence mav lie a warnI ing to all farmers similarly situat- ’ ,’ed. lie fackled the work while a hojh wile of wind was blowing, j This r-' suited in carrying a heavy j | bough across the line'. lie caught j | hold of the yiTea end of i he brancli ) j with jhe •'■ ton of p u;!; 11 gsieH | i• pi wji' , V ■’? , ‘ei - tamed thereby j that larye and sudden doses ot | elemri-itv are not to he recoin - I mended to one’s friends.