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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23536, 14 January 1942, Page 4

Recruiting Period Extended A final opportunity will be given now to men wishing to join the National Reserve. The recruiting period has been extended for a short time, and enlistments can still be made at the unit's recruiting office in Hereford street. Fire in Fruit Storage Shed Only slight damage was done by fire which broke out in a fruit storage shed at 223 Papanui road shortly before 6 o'clock last evening. An engine was sent from the Central Fire Station and one from the St. Albans station, and the outbreak was soon under control. The owner of the property is Mrs M. L. Osman, Ashburton, and the occupier is Mr A. A. Holland. Milk Cow Census A census will be taken in New Zealand to-morrow night of milking cows, and every dairy farmer in the Dominion will be expected to write on a label supplied to him for the purpose the number of cows actually put through milking on the evening of to-morrow (January 15). Tire labels will then be affixed to one of the milk or cream cans to be picked up the following morning, and Ihe dairy factories handling the milk will forward the cards to the records office. This will bo the second year that a census of milking cows has been taken in the Dominion, last year marking the inauguration of the scheme, which has been established for the purpose of the raising of dairying efficiency. Ninety-five per cent, of dairy farmers attended to the request in 1941, and it is hoped that there will be a 100 per cent, response this year. Slip Makes 10-Acre Lake Men with 60 years’ experience of hill country say they have never seen anything like the vast landslide which occurred four miles up the Makirikiri Valley, near Wanganui, as the result of the recent heavy rains in the back country. A lake, 10 acres in extent, has been formed, and traffic is effectively barred. At a point 400 feet above the valley floor, the crown of a spur has been cleft lengthwise for a quarter of a mile, and what was formerly a rounded hilltop appears from the road as a stark cliff 80 feet high. Below it, shaped like an hourglass and spread in indescribable confusion. are the remains of the former hillside, filling what was a swampy depression and the river-bed, and finishing at the near-side bank-top, a few feet below road level. At least 30 acres of land is covered by the slip.