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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2857, 31 January 1916, Page 2

The grain crops in the Wakefield district, Nelson, are mostly harvested, and are m excellent condition. The new freezing works at Taihape are putting through upwards of 1000 »h,eep per day. ■ v During the period of the war the Auckland Land Board will decline to receive applications for land from single men of military age unless they can produce evidence of rejection from the military authorities. Oamaru papers state that one of the biggest land deals of recent times in the Dominion has just been put through, Mr R. D. D. McLean's Maraekakaho Estate, Hawke's Bay, liOling been purchased by a North Otago mall for something approaching £100,000. Harvesting, according to t-ite Xy*" hour Department's reports, has absorbed a large proportion of the unemployed In the Dominion. At present there is a demand for harvest workers in Gtago. Grass-seeders, ballast workers, and labourers are required in Canterbury. The labour' position is generally satisfactory. At a well attended meeting of Chel-teirham-Kiwitea Sports Club held on Saturday night the balance-sheet of the recent meeting showed a clear profit of over .£Bo,' including £10 from tho Indies' refreshment booth and stall. The Club desires to thank all ladies who assisted with refreshments and labour to make such a. huge success; also all competitors who so generously refunded their prize money. All profits arc to be handed to the Feidiling Patriotic Committee for the WpU'itded Soldiers' Fund.