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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 18, 21 July 1897, Page 2

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" Observer " suggests that during the present "boom" for city improvements, the question of impfoving the harbour should not be overlooked. A fcreat want is felt, he says, by not having steamboat accommodation to places aud neighbourhoods which are springing up all rouud the harbour — Oriental Bay, Island Bay, Worser Bay, &c. If a company could be formed to erect jetties to these places and provide comfortable steamers to ply from the Queen's Whavi! at frequent intervals, fares to be in accordance to distance, say 2d to Orieutal Bay, ityvould, he is sure, soon be a profitable concern and pay a good divideud. to the promoters, besides giving a large number of people opportunities of living away from the already overcrowded city. "Observer" also suggests an underground roadway, instead of cutting through the Basin Reserve, aud urges that the less important streets of the city should be swept regularly. " Progress Auld Reekie " holds forth upon " Dairying in New Zealand " and " Education in Scotland." 'In his' first letter he asserts that New Zealand farmers know nothing about dairy factories, aud little about the way in 1 which they should treat their cows. The dairy, factories in Denmark and Finland, Denmark in particular, he says, are at the least two centuries before New Zealand, owing to the excellent system of winter housing aiyl feeding of their dairy milk cowa. If New Zealanders want to be up to date they must grasp at the scientific improvements made in machinery, and also tho advances made in science. The Canadian system won't do here. Denmark is head and shoulders above all American butters or (as yet) as any other competitors. In Denmark they have no inspectors, and thoy laugli at our system. " By attendiug to the proper foods for dairy cows," he continues, " they will give two months' longer milk each season, and half a gallon more milk each day. frothing surpasses the steaming system for dairy cows. For winter feed and fattening purposes a mixture of wheat straw and corn cdb tn'eal. This system is greatly used in AustroHuugary, as well as Denmark :•— • To one bushel of cut wheat straw add one and a ■half pints of 'cob com meal,' steamed. " N This feed costs aboutls per day per head of cows. It is found to be siiperi6r toYed clover in its raw state, and 6f vjiry. easy digestion. It is excellent for stud horses, sheep, draught oxen, calves, pigs, &ci — they all thrive and fatten very rapidly on it. Do not forget the salt, 2oz pur day each animal, and also remember this steaming is' not done in a copper boiler." In his letter on " Education in Scotland," "Progress Auld Reekie" endorses the utterances of Sir Robert Stout at a recent lecture, and also briefly outlines the growth of education in Scotland. "Let your cursed flax, that has ruined this country, go," said Mr. Dwan at a recent lecture here. Mr. A. Bergin. takes up#the

cudgels on the other side, and asserts without hesitation that properly prepared New Zealand flax will compare more than favourably with that of any other country. He is prepared to show anyone that there is a great future before the flax industry of this colony. "Tiinotheus" writes in reply to Mr. Carr's condemnation of the tree-cutting at the Thorndon Esplanade, " Timotheus" says that anyone knowing anything about the trees there will see that there are far too many of one kind, and those that were cut down were the badly formed shrubs lying all over the ground, and very common 6hrubs at that. They could easily be spared. " Salt " writes — '• As it is evident the Government are going to torture His Excellency and family by asking them to cross the Tasman Sea in tho Tutanekai, I would like to suggest that the officers and crew be placed in uniform." At the least he thinks they should wear a uniform cap. "An Old Player" complains that the conduct of travelling teams of footballers and cricketers now-a-days is too often most reprehensible, and asserts that this behaviour spoils all the good old feeling of sport as it was felt in past years. , . "Visitor" considers that the building being erected in Courtenay-place for use as a police station should be converted into a post office.

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