FEILDING MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 3

FEILDING MATTERS.

♦ [BX TELEGRAPH — SKCIAL TO THE FO3T.) FEILDIXG, This Day. Feilding is assured of a mayoral contest. The' present Mayor (Mr. Trswin), •who has been in office for four years, is to be opposed by Councillor Haiford for certain. Councillor Goodbehcre lias been urged to stand, but he cannot snare the time. Other names mentioned aa possible candidates are Mr. F. Y. Lethbridge. ex-M.P., Mi. Guthrie, M.P., Councillor Bramwell, and Mr. Norman Gorton, it is probable that a strong effort will be made to induce Mr. Lethbridge to accept nomination. Mrs. E. M. BobUd, of Halcombe, has sold her dairy farm to Mr. F. J. Falkiner, of Oroua Bridge. The Bolstad family came on io the land up this way from Wellington a few years ago. The Sandon-Rongotea circuit of the Methodist Church has decided to heartily Mipport the new organ, the New Zealand Methodist Times. The Feilding circuit is to appoint a delegate to specially look after the interests of tne paper in this town. ( A Feilding branch of the New Zetland Employ-:-!-' Association was rormed yvsterday, viith Mi. Fred Pirani as pi esident. M ». John Cobbe, wht has been in business in Feilding for tweqty years, leave? to-day o» a- visit to the (Jld World, accompajued by his trife and dau^htei. During his absence his eldest :>on, Mr. Richard Cobbe, who is well known in Wellington, will manage the business. A Che?s and Draughts Club has been formed here. One of its supporters is Mr Owen Pleasant*, oC Halcombe, who has on two occasions been runner-up for the chess championship of New Zealand. .Mr. Bolt, late of Dunedin, is one of the organisers of the club. A Debating Society has alto been formed, with' over thirty members. The secretary is Mr. Bernard E. Murphy, M.A.; who recently left Messrs Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers's firm in Wellington to become a partner in a legal firm in Foildinj?.

The ravages of tin* grass-grub are being felt in tarioiii. country tlirtricU on tin* > Plain* (reports a southern paper). One farmer coinplsinx that in bio paddock the grub has not left a green blade of grass. It is % great pity that the farmeri do Hot tako Eoinn united action in this matter. If there wrro combined effort during th» rfiort «e«*on, generally a few hot night* upon which Uio grub is flying, in the perfected form of a moth, and firc< were built systematically, there would be fewer enmplainis of ruined grae* land. Every moth escaping at the breeding teacon mean* many moro grubs in the adjoining paddocks nest year. The grub feeds on tho butts of the blades of grass and on the ■terns. The idea that it eats the roots of the plant i& combated by scientific writers. It bat been computed tnat on* female lay» three hundred tod thirty-two «gf< in ft eeuon.