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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 98, 26 April 1916, Page 8

Commenting on the early spring in England and the beantiful bulb blossoms to be seen in the shops' in London in January and early in February, a New Zealand soldier writes to a friend in. Otago as follows:—"As you probably know, most of the bulbs grown over here are imported from Holland. Owing to the war, the Dutch have practically no market for the hundreds of tons of bulbs that they have grown. The latest news, however, is that the Germans are buying them in. bulk for use as food, as many bulbs are quite edible and very nourishing, quite as much so as onions." In our advertising columns will be found particulars of an issue of prefer-1 once shares by the Fanners' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton, Wuikalo. The shares carry a 6 per cent, oumulative dividend free of Income Tax, and are preferential both as regards capital and dividend. The business was established in the very early days of the Waikato, the' present company ta.king; over from the firm of M'Nicol and Co : in 1907. In addition to tho stock auctioneering department the company supplies nil farmers' requirements. Tho brokers for Wellington aro M«J»r*, J, Martyri Hume, Haroourt md Co., «.«! A, T, But*,