SNOWED IN SHEEP IN THE SOUTH.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1918, Page 2

SNOWED IN SHEEP IN THE SOUTH.

CONDITIONS CONTINUE SERIOUS

(IT TBLBGIUPH.--PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 13th July. Mr. F. Mackenzie. Inspector of Stock in Ohristchurch, returned to-day after an official visit to Oxford. He reports that the conditions there continue to be very serious. '•',': '

Large numbers of sheep are.snowed in,, and as there is no country clear of snow,; there is no place to take the sheep even if they are got out of the deep snow. A farmer told Mr. Mackenzie that. he had 600 hoggets in the snow, and would be thankful if 300 were saved. Another farmer had had 2700 sheep in the country behind Oxford, and got out about 1800. The deaths are increasing daily," even amongst hand-fed sheep, because: they have become weaker, and are unable to get out of places that would have offered Tittle difficulty a few days ago. It is stated that the loss of sheep on Mr. A. W. Rutherford's Mendip Hills. Station has been veryl'heavy.

The new Hutt-road bylaws contain the following provisions in regard to the speed of motor vehicles using the road: —(1( No,,,person shall drive any motorcar or ride any motor-cycle on the road at a greater speed than 25 miles an hour. (2) No person shall drive any motor-car or ride any motor-cycle between the points on the road indicated by sign boards near Kaiwarra railway station, near Ngahauranga railway station, and near Korokoro Stream crossing at a greater speed than twelve miles an hour. Motor wagons and motor delivery vans shall not exceed the speeds specified hereunder according to their weight-carrying capacity :—Motor delivery vans of carrying capacity not exceeding 1£ tons, 50 miles per hour; motor delivery vans of carrying capacity exceeding li tons bafc not 2 tons, 15 miles per hour j motor wagons of carrying capacity exceeding 2 tons but not 3 tons, 12 miles per hour; motoi- wagons cf carrying capacity exceeding 3 tons, but not 5 tons, 10 miles per hour.

"Sterling Decimal Coinage," by Walter Lennox Craig, 8.C.E.; A.M. Inst. G.E. (Effingham Wilson, London), is 'V plea for modernising our money." The writer was formerly 1 of the Lands Department, New South Wales, and his idea of coinage reform is to issue £500,000 in crown notes in the United Kingdom, and call in £500,000 worth of half-crowns, coin them into decimal sixpences marked "25 mils and shillings marked 50 mils, and florins marked 100 mils. Next oall in another £500,000 of silver coins against the £500,000 crown notes and change the silver coins so withdrawn into decimal money and circulate them also. In this way all the money from 6d upwards could be decimalised in the course of two or three years." The writer makes out a. strong case for decimalising our coinage in order to cave labour in book-keeping and calculating, and ©hows how "the unsuitably steep grading of our present coins has, in taet^ proved i source of hardship, especially to those who are obliged to purchase foods and other daily necessaries in small quantities." The work will be found of gTeat interest to advocates of the decimalising of our present coinage.