LINCOLN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19770, 7 November 1929, Page 3

LINCOLN.

The meteorological report for the month of October as recorded at the Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln. !• as follows (6gures in parentheses aiu the corresponding records for tictober, 1929) :—Mean barometer reading, 2y.986in; mean temperature Mt 9 a.m.., 54.ii degrees (57.9 degrees); mean maximum temperature during day, 63.1 degrees (63.8 degrees.); mean minimum temperature during day, 43.1 degret-i (44.8 degrees*; mean minimum temperature on the gra&s, 36-4 decree* (37.5 degree*); total miles of wind.» 37.69; total hours of sun•hine. 184.2; average hours of sunshine per day. 6.3; total rainfall, 0.13-">m (2.oiin). number of frosts during month, 5; heaviest frost during month October 25th, 8.5 degrees. The above records show a colder temperature at 9 a.m. in the maximum and minimum temperatures for the dav. and also minimum on the grass. This fart, together with the remark-j ably low rainfall. accounts for the j lateness of the spring. j A verv beneficial rain began to fall on Monday evening, and continued interim ittentlv throughout the night and j on Tuesday. Although not so heavy as some of the farmers might have wished it was very welcome, and already the toiuitrv i« looking tb" better f«r it , CULVERDEN. j The Culverden Branri* of the British j and Foreign Bible Society was visited I by the Rev. A. \Y. Stuart, organising j and deputational secretary, on Friday, j when he addressed a meeting in the > Presbvteri.it; SH-00l Hall, the Rev. E. j B. Moore p.-«-»iding. The speaker out- I lined the ajt*\ities of the society both ! in New Zealand and in the missionary J world. The collectors will commence work immediately under tVe guidance J of Mrs M. ii'lncit (president) and Miss j J«n McMillan (secretary). j LADBROOKS. Although of abort duration, the rain J which has fallen since Monday night wa* verv welcome, but a good downpour is 'needed for the pasture lands. A concert in aid of the school funds mil be held in the hall to-night. A iianc* will follow. Miss G Sparks is visiting friends at Waipara. Miss Pickering is on a holiday visit to*the North Island. SEFTON. The Sefton cricket team played Oxford on Saturday, and won by an innings and 13 runs. Oxford stored 44 and 120 (Fisher 61, McCormack 19. Sell 13» and Sefton replied with 177 for seven wickets (Armstrong 20, Rollin'on 13, Cameron 12, Morris 35, Hall 28 Ford, retired, <6, Jolly, not out. 31). Sell and Mann were th<- beat bowlers for Oxford, whilst Harvev, Peine, and Armstrong were the beat for Sefton. . At the Methodist Church on bunday afternoon, the Rev. J. R. Nelson made reference to the death of Mr James Marshall, of Papanm, who farmed in Sefton for many years, and to whose energy more than to any other individual the Methodist Church owed its establishment. Together with Mr jimw Ash worth, of Harwarden, the present church was removed from Leithfield to Sefton. The result of the egg Sunday by the WoodendS«fton circuit lor the Methodist Orphanage at Papa.n<n was a total of 122 dcaen cgc«. Of this total, AmberW contributed 18 doaen and Sefton 32 doawn.