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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 94, 15 January 1926, Page 4

The hot weather and the shortage of rain during the last fortnig lit has had a marked effect upon Waikato pastures, which as a result are commencing to drv un. In the northern section of the district parching is more apparent than anywhere else, although in the more central sections of the area the pastures have not yet dried up to any great extent . I 1 ecd is fairly plentiful, but production has commenced to decrease, and a man whose business brings him closely m touch with dairy mutters told a “Waikato Times” representative that in his opinion the season would not be a particularly good one. “A good rest but a poor holiday,” was tlic manner in which a tourist described his impressions of New Zealand’s hot spring resorts when he returned to Auckland last week, after spending a fortnight at Rotorua, Helensville and Tc Arolia (states the “Star”). His chief criticism was that certain trips were arranged for visitors apparently very many years ago, and no effort was being made to show the attractions that were away from the beaten paths. Very often tourists were left entirely to their own resources; and he had met with indifferent treatment -where it would not be tolerated by the business man who catered for travellers in other countries. New Zealand, he considered, was lagging behind, and many of the places he had called at were quiet and dull and *no effort Was made io take visitors out by car. "We quickly tire of the baths,” he remarked, “and have nothing to occupy our time but sitting around in hotel or boardinghouse verandas, idly contemplating the landscape,” A "Gazette” proclamation formally confirms a resolution by which the Wellington Harbour Board increased the payments that may be made to n widow Or children of a deceased contributor or annuitant under its superannuation sell erne. The Suburbs Riflo Chib will continue week-end practice at their range, Broadway Miramar, on Saturday afternoon, lit ranges 500 and GOO yards, ten shots r.t range On .January 22, the club will firo their annual "Daily Mail” competition. . i In reply to an inquiry from Wellington, the Canterbury Master Builders’ Association stated that 100 carpenters 25 bricklayers, and C stonemasons could be employed if the Government brought them out from Home. By an Order-in-Council gazetted last evening, the Featherston County Council is authorised to borrow £12,000 for the improvement of main highways nt, a rate of interest not exceeding 6 per cent, per annum. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint cure.— Ar.