TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 11

TELEGRAMS.

PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY fBI XXTJSOJIAPH — VSBS3 ASSOCIATION.! DUNEDIN, 26fch January. Tho annual meeting of the New Zealand Portland Cement Company was held to-day, Mr. P. Barr (chairman of directors) presiding. The directors reported that operations for the thirteen months endad 30th November showed that tlie net profits were £10,861 Cs 9d/ while the balance brought forward from fast year was £772 Us 3d. I After deducting an interim dividend of 4 per cent, on old shares, there was a balance of £8433 13s. The directors recommended a further dividend of 6 per cent, (estimated to' abt>orb £5660 8s 3d) ; depreciation on plant and -vessels, £1000; and to ' carry forward £878 9s 9d. The report congratulated the shareholders on the satisfactory results for the year, notwithstanding that the works were still i incomplete. All the machinery and plarit j had been maintained in a thorough state I of efficiency, and the directors did not consider that th«*re was any necessity for heavy • writing-off - for depreciation. A, third rotary -kiln should bo in running ot«der by the end of the month, when the output, it w?.s expected, would bo fully doubled. • . The chairman mentioned that the profit* for the year had benefited considerably from the fact' that the low price contracts entered into some time ago had been running' out, and more payable business had been ■ substituted. The report was adopted, and -the retiring directors and auditors were re-elect-ed. FOREST LANDS. WHAT THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT WILL DO. [by telegbapb— special to this post.] DUNEDIN, This Day. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, during the course of an interview yesterday morning, saidi "A great part of the forest about Tahakopa and the M'Lennan kas been disposed of to sawmillers. I have sent in my agricultural chemists to analyse the soil, and they have reported. The report is a valuable one, and will be a reliable guide to the farmers, enabling them, as scon as the bush is ' cleared off, to at once treat the soil scientifically and practically, thus ensuring the best results. I have also told the settlers, with a view to experimenting and demonstrating, that if they will unite I will supply them with fertilisers and seeds, and will also send an officer who is a practical director in experimenting to instruct them. This should be of great value if the offer, is taken up by the settlers, and they are going to consider the matter." EEILDJNG NOTES. [BT TBLEOBAPH— SPEOUL TO THE POST.] FEILDING, This Day. It ia reported that an opera house is to be erected in Feilding on a site in the centre of the business portion of the borough. Large yardings of sheep and cattle came forward for the Feilding sale yesterday. Bidding for sheep was brisk all the time, and prices Were very firm. Entries for the Feilding Show total nearly 1600, as compared with 1225 last year. The increases have taken place in the live stock sections'. Mr. Thomas Oliver, of Aorangi, who claimed to have made the best average milking record in hia district last year, puts forth, a similar claim this year. yOnv On a fitrm'of thirty-two acres he is running twenty-two cows, twelve we*anere, two horses, and two bulls. For December his niilk cheque was £49 9s, payment being made at the rate of Is per lb. This works out at £2 4s per cow. Can any other dairyman beat this? [PEESS ASSOCIATION.] CLERGY WANTED. IDEAL TRAINING GROUND FOR / CURATES. NEW PLYMOUTH, 26th January. Dr. Croseley, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, in instituting the Rev. A. H. Colville to the living of St. Mary's, asked where\ he was going to find clergy for the 'diocese, which had lost five vicars. The vacancies had to be filled fromth^ir own ranks, and it remained to be seen how long this unfortunate drain would go on. He complained that some of the graduates of St. John's College qualified for the ministry, but did not serve. Funds were wanted without delay. The diocese wanted two men each year from St. John's for three years to come. New Plymouth was an ideal training ground for curates which could absorb three additional men. RIFLE RANGE CONDEMNED. TIMARU, 26th January. The Defence Department has forbidden the use of the old rifle range on the beach at Patati Point. The Defence Rifle Club has found another site approved by the Department in the Haroour Board's quarry gully. MEW CHURCH. ■ TIMARU, 26fch January. A special committee appointed at the recent Primitive "Mcthodi&t Conference visited. Tiwaru yesterday and inspected sites offered for a new church, and to-day completed the purchase of ono in the south- west ' side of the borough. The old church, which was condemned owing to mischief done by the pine-borer, and other decay, stood about 80 yards from the ■ post office. TRUCKS FOR SHEEP WANTED. FEILDING, 26th January. Farmers are complaining strongly of the treatment they are getting at the hands of the railway authorities with regard to getting trucks for sheep and cattle. The trouble is "that tho local officials are unable to give definite information when ordered tracks will be available, and wiil take no responsibility. ■The Fanners' Union is to approach thfo Ministei of fiailv/ays on. tab matter. BREACH OF LICENSING LAWS. NELSON, 26th January. / Frances Arlington, wife of the licensee of ihe Telegraph flotel, Takaka, was fiued £Sj and i costs on Thurwday for supplying liquor to an intoxicated person. Decision in similar cases against the licensee fas reserved. The informations wero tho outcome of n. recent trap accident, by which a «aan named (Jassidy niet his death.. CHARGE OF THEFT. AUCKLAND, 26th January. A labourer n-wued Knud Edingbreth Bergmann was, arrested to-day on a charge of stealing sixty-ei#ht men's felt hats, the propfrly of Macky, Logan, Caldweli, and Co. The hats were Tecently found to bi> miesing from a case of hats received by tho firm named. A bat worn by Berginann was observed by

Detective Powell to resemble those in the pillaged case, and after further enquiries the arrest followed. - Ihe police afterwards took possession of six more hats which were found in Bergmann's he use. •