News in Brief

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 5256, 11 March 1922, Page 4

News in Brief

Easter excursion fares are advertised by thc Railway Department. Mr and Mrs E. H. Jecks have been spending a few days in the district as the guests of Dr and Mrs Volckman. In the Austrian Emperor's palace at Sehonbrunn there is the finest collection of orchids in the world; there are about 18,000 plants. Next Thursday Aveek there will be a hard-up social in the Doyleston Hall in support of the Doyleston representative in the Catholic queen carnival. Attention is called to the Ellesmere Technical Association's advertisement in this issue relating to leatherwork classes. The bookkeeping class at Leeston meets on Monday and the Southbridge class* on Tuesday, at 7.30. If an attendance of ten pupils is maintained the bookkeeping classes will be continued. At Leeston sale yesterday the Farmers' Co-operatiA'-c Association offered Ky auction 2-1 acres of land and an eightroomed house, at Southbridge, on behalf of Mrs Sutton. It Avas passed in at , £450. A farm at Lakeside in the estate of the late Mrs Prosscr Avas offered by (Messrs H. Matson and Co. and passed at £49 per acre. At a meeting of the Ashburton Technical Association held this Aveek it was decided to enter a strong protest against the new regulations, and to ask the tAvo members of Parliament for the district to use their influence in the matter. The regulations are crippling couutry technical classes throughout the Dominion. Many complaints have been made that the broken asphalt in front of the Bank at Leeston should have been left in that condition for about eight months. At the meeting of the County Council on Monday the engineer yvas instructed to obtain a price for effecting repairs, so that there is a good chance of the path being put in order before the winter. The whole of the asphalt footpaths in Leeston have been badly in need of topdressing for a long time. They show signs of breaking up in many places. Nearly 590 million people, or about one-third of the world's population, are classed as meat eaters. The knoAvledge is comforting just hoav. It is interesting too, that specialists in agricultural production and in nutrition problems agree that the number of meat eaters in every country is rapidly growing Avith the extension of better living conditions. In fact, sixty years ago, it is estimated, the total number of meat consumers ay as about one-quarter of the world's population then. Thc increase, if these figures are correct, thus shows that roundly 4,'. million people were added to the meateating roll every year. j