IN NEW ZEALAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 88, 15 April 1910, Page 3

IN NEW ZEALAND.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. Accoiding to .-tateuients m «de by menibeits of the council of the Auckland Acclimatii-ation Society this week, specially energetic iiiedMite* vie to be taken ngninst poacher.* this wvnon. A letter has been drawn up by the pietident to -bo forw aided to tho txnintry societies asking for their co-operation in stopping poaching. It it> pointed out in thus letter (fays the Herald) that the society intends to appoint one oi two paid ranger;, and it in asked that assistance ehould be icndeced by the local •ociety in protecting itA own district by honorary rangers, and paid ranger* where necessary It was resolved to offer the Thames Society the sum of £10, and seven other societies £5 each, as a contribution to.yards this end. The Huntly Hod and Gim Club notified that all its member* wonld act as honorary rangers. The council appointed a ranger for three months, and a aecond ranger for a fottnight immediately juior to the opening of the *ea*on. A Taranaki journal observe* that the woiYt land in the listrict is capable of the. greatCFt improvement. The \vriter can point to land which, by intelligent and geuerou* treatment, has trebled — aye, more than trebled its carrying capacity, and there are not very many farms which cannot be made- to carry more stock thiin they are carrying if they were thoroughly well tilled. Who is the better off, the writer ariu>, the farmer with fifty acres of land which will carry twenty-fire cows, or the one wifh a hundred acres which will carry thirty? An exchange states that the settler* around Rusmii, near Taihape, had a meeting the other day to protest against Caljforiusm tbirtle being classed « a rooxioua weed. They hold that t>tock will eat it if gra*« is warce, and that it is rmpo6i-?blc to eradicate it. They mv petitioning for the Act to be repealed. The departmental in«.poctor (Mr. Deene) raid ha did not think a proper attempt hod been made to deal with Califoinian thinlc in the district. He recommended the u?e of the mower. As long as the Act remained in force he intended to enforce it. Tuberculosis' has played havoc with a number of dairy herd* in the Kaikoura district (icport* the local Sun). Mr. Miinro, ftock inspector, who officially visited Kai koura liut week, condemned over thirty cows that are suffering with this tuboicuior disease. One stromban dairy farmer alone will be a heavy loser, over twenty * head of hi» 6tock being condemned. The Miimtle are to be driven through to Bel fust, where they will b* destroyed. In the South, farmer* are eomplaininjr that tkn lio\ eminent, though quirk to fine them for not keeping (town noxiou* weed*, doe* not keep its own reserve* dear. One unemior at a meet in jr at Gro\e Bui>h on Friilay niflrht (reports th* Chrirtctutrrh Evening News) remarked that (hero had only been one man employed cutting thi'tle* oirr blocks embracing •omc MOO acre-. It waa very unju*t to fine hard-working farmer* when tho Government w«« r.ich ■ tinner itwlf. Somu good >iclds of wheat are reported from Southland to an Otagd paper. There have lxH<n i>evrral 60-buthel 'ot», and one at Athol of 70. Tito *ca»on was better for wheat than (or oatf, though one *mall patdi of 31 acre* of oat» gave 180 tnifheli per acre. A local journal state* that the installation of the Borough of Milton acetylene gas «y*fem in proceeding apace. Part of I lie main street it lighted, and several buiinen premises had the gai turned on lait week. An fHaffo Daily Tiroes correspondent report* i hat the root cropf generally in the Tokomairini dirtrict are all ipoiled by the blight, cloud* of which ha\t been flying o\er the plain during the pait few day*. In consequence tlio farmer* Club has derided that imi winter ihow >ha|l lc held thi» year. Mr. .1. Stephen* ha* been one of lite rontt nKrewltil among** the Avhburtou angler* ilii* M>a«nti, anil, »i> far, he ha» rauxht a* tho muittli of tho ltangitata river a tutal of 170 fUli. On Hat unlay r^eninx li« landnl nixtoon. the heav|e«t of which ■ acaled lSllt. Tlie next liravieat wrivtiMl 71b. Tho Mataura Kn«i«n <tsorrl reimrt* thai th* Southland High Schocl Itoartl ot Co\i>rniti< i< in the hannr |MMi*tion of haviug ****** \aiuotl at £5106 13* 6d and liahißtie* whirli do not exceed £1141 19* 3<t. while th«^re i* a mud in the bank amounting to £965 9* Bd, and on deposit with tho building aociety £500. A ik-w kind of challenge ha* come to light at Inglewood (tays a local paper). The borough foreman, per medium of an advertisement in tbo local paper, challenges any councillor to rciign* *nd lie will cor.te«t the *e«t againtt him at a prote*t againtt the council* reorganifat ion of tho ttaff. Furthtr, be will pay Ui« turn oi £3 to tar* tbt nupaytn' txptnnt in coastction with tht •lection.