FEILDING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 29, 29 October 1907, Page 6

FEILDING.

i Chaff sold in Feilding.bn Saturday..at £7 10s. per give this price found, it hard.'to obtain suppluis. Potatoes also, continue, to.-rise in. price, and,a substantial increase .took.place .on Saturday; A Feilding-. grower.: sold fifty, .tons,,iri the morning, and. a-few-hours-laterhe-expressed tho opinion that it. \youjd,have.paid him better to have held back a'little longer. Captain Forbes, of.Turakina, is on.a visit to Feildirig' and is tlie giicst ,of Dr. Sorley. Captain Forbes intends staying over'"ho Palmcrston■ Show scasoii.v - -■' -, -: : ■; ■

■■ A meeting of master butchers of iFcilding has, decided to. revise, prices of meat,- and not in favour of housekeepers; Thiii.course' lias been, found necessary owing to-the continued rise in the jjrice of live stock. •When :soineone asked-at , a public'meeting Apiti how the expenses of the railway campaign worry to be.paid, Mr.-Crabb (President of the Kimbolton Railway League) ex-plained-that it.W!is':bbing- donb : by Voluntary subscription. -At the first meetin'g'at Kimboltoii. £12 was subscribed, and, evoii if the promoters had to pay■'£S each towards the expenses,, they, were determined *to ■go ~on with the agitation.' '■• '"'. ' ■ . '-'.' The Rev. Gcorgo Budd arid Mrsi ; - Biidd loft t'eilding; yesterday; for a month's ho iday at PJimmorton. Mr. Budd will also.attend the .Presbyterian Geiieral Assembly..'. ■,; .Self-denial offerings tp--tha'araountiof £140 have been-eollccted by the FeUdingvSalVation; Army!' C0rp5...... Tho amount aimed, at was £150, and the result is considered fairly satisfactory.' ' ■...'..'..,-■■. , .■':-. '.■,']■' : -'' ■ For the two vacancies.on. .the.directorate of the JTeilding Pennanent' Building. and-In-vestment Socie.tv caused by the retirement by offluxion of time of Mr. W. A. L. Bailoy and ".the death' of .'Mr.,' Charles Bray,, Mr. Bailey was .rp-elccte'cjL and' Mr.; Getirgn.- H. Saywell w'as elected with....himy, ..Tbo, )^U — sheet, for -the year pending ; September. -30 shows satisfactory results. ,'■,■■; . .-,.■■