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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1917, Page 2

Writing on the labour question as far as it ■concerns the agriculturist, AgTicola," in the Fanners' Union Advocate, states:—"The whole question ie still most unsettled, and the sooner that something definite is announced and acted upon the better. If the men are all to go in the trenches then we can make provision accordingly. If we must produce sufficient wheat for our own requirements then we must have a. certain proportion of competent men left to us, at least one on each farm. The statement by the Chief of Staff at Home that men for the firing line must be procured at all costs seems to . have upset the former decision of the powexs-that-ba to allow the farming industry the efficient teamsters it wants to keep things going. I am afraid that before this year is out there will be an outcry owing to the shortage of breadstuffs unless the Government can lay its hands on a supply outside the Dominion, and we do not want a repetition of that sort of thing next year. It was currently reported that an option had been secured over from one to two* million bushels of Australian wheat, but that seems to be extremely' problematical, ilf we can get any of the staff of life from there it will probably be in the shape of flour, and that means a blow to our own milling industry."

The legal profession, in Auckland proposes (says the New Zealand Herald) to make a .'contribution, to-the country's war work in the form yof gratuitous assistance to the Boards of Trustees for the management of soldiers' property. Such boards will frequently require advice as to the mode in which a document in connection with a soldier trust should be executed, or. the proper form of a power of sale or of leasing to be inserted in a power of attorney or other deed of the kind. A circular has been issued by the council of the Auckland Law Society to the members of the profession practising in the Auckland judicial district, suggesting that in such mattors, and others of a- similar character, the necessary work should' lie clone free