CARTERTON ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1909, Page 8

CARTERTON ITEMS.

TBt Telegraph. — Special to The Post.] CARTERTON, This Day. 'Mr. Alex. M'Kenzie, manager of the Taratahi Dairy Factory, Carterton, ' ha 6 resigned his position for a more lucrative appointment in Taranaki. During his time here he has been a very successful cheesemaker, and is the holder of prize medals and diplomas gained at Palmerston North and Wairarapa P. and A. Shows for best make of cheese. Carterton will be well represented at the winter dairy show at Palmerston North this week. Many farmers are arranging to spend a few days there, and as it is the off-season with them they will have the time. A great deal of information is to be gleaned at this particular chow of interest to dairy farmers. It is a good opportunity for comparing notes, which is eagerly taken advantage of. ' The Acting Premier (Hon. J. Carroll) and the Hon. A. Ngata left this morning for Hastings. -To-morrow they will meet the natives at Omahu, and condole with them on the death of Mrs. G. P. Donnelly. The Arbitration Court's award in the bootmakers' dispute came into operation to-day, . and will remain in force until Ist December, 1911. The principal clauses of the award were summarised in our issue of Saturday. Frank Crofski Stockton was charged to-day, in the Magistrate's Court, with having wilfully made,- on the sth November last, at Maitland, New South Wales, a false statement respecting the date, year, and place of his marriage. On the application of Chief Detective Broberg, the case was adjourned to Friday next. A farmer who has his homestead in the Pahiatua electorate, and a portion of his farm in the Masterton electorate, is in a state of perplexity, states the local Express, as to how he will fare if he carries liquor from his house into the prohibited portion of his farm, say, when haymaking or harvest operations are in progress. A considerable number of hands have been discharged from the Government Printing Qtiice. Usually this season of tho year is an exceptionally- busy one, owing to the tact that Parliament is sitting or about to bit. This year, however, the iession was .short, and the business done did not necessitate the printing of tho usual departmental reports and other Parliamentary papers. Moht ot the work required to bo done duiing the recess has now been completed, and t the staff is being reduced accordingly. A number of threshing machines working in the Ashburton district have tallies ranging ton&iderably over 100,000 bushels, and when one takes into consideration the fact that there are close on fifty threshing mills, in the county, some idea (says the'local paper) can be gained of the importance of the Ashburton county for grain producing, apart from the large quantities of wool, mutton, and lamb that are annually exported by the farmers and merchants. In regard te the threshing returns, the average tally of each machine can be safely put' down at between 70,000 and 80,000 bushels of mixed grain, the quantity of wheat probably being slightly in excess of that of oats. This represents a total production for the county of about 3,600,000 bushels of grain. Of course, the whole of this is not available for export, neither has the whole of the crops beon yet actually threshed, as large quantities are annually reserved for chaff and other purposes. Acting on the advice of Mr. Boucher, the Government Fruit Expert, the Greytown Fruit-growing Company will not plant more frui^-trees till they have greater shelter for them. Experience has shown this to be necessary. The expert recommends black wattle as the best shelter to plant. Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonald, Ltd., insert particulars in our auction columns of a sale of building material, 350 sheets iron, etc., on the ground, Collenre-street, to-morrow, at 11 o'clock. The firm alsc insert particulars of a sale of household furniture, all-brass bedstead, 100 rattan chairs, 12 cases wine, etc. in their rooms .on Wednesday, at L3O o'clock.