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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 16, 13 October 1927, Page 12

Old Buildings are being demolished, yielding place to new at a rapid rate in Invercargill, and impressive changes in the city’s face are being wrought with each passing month (states the “News”). The building permits issued by the town engineer run rarely under five figures each month, and for September alone £16,115 was set down for expenditure, the amount being comparatively small when it is taken into account that with the beginning of the summer months there is a marked activity in the trade. Of this £16.115 the sum of £13,360 is to be expended on 15 new dwellings. A number of farmers on the rich Poverty Bay flats have averred from time to time that it is not essential to use manure on their farms, but, on the other hand, some who have resorted to top-dressing have been satisfied that the use of artificial manures has helped their production considerably (states the “Herald”). One man who had added some fertiliser to his rich land on tlie flats stated that even had he not seen any difference to the growtli of the grass*or in the production, he would, have been convinced of its value, on account of the fact that the cows preferred the top-dressed pastures to those that had not been so treated.