DISINFECTING THE SALE YARDS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2887, 6 March 1916, Page 2

DISINFECTING THE SALE YARDS

In order to prevent any danger of disease from the sateyards, the Auctioneers' Association have placed a gang on to thoroughly disinfect the whole of the yards and paddocks. This work is -being done with praiseworthy thoroughness. A reader of the .'Stah Mould like to know from other re-aelers if there i.s any cure for the moth .in cabbages, which are alfected in her garden. For the eigthh year in successaoii the Raglan County Council bals collected the whole of its European rates before March 31 in each year. The Somerset County Council has resolved thai. boy_ of 11 years shall b_ released from school duties in order to take part i-n< agricultural work. Probably for the first time in history, football has been played at Basra, out the Persian. Gulf, and a.t A-inara .on the Euphrates. - The Sepoys of the Chin H'lls, beyond • Burma,, are clamouring to join the British forces which are. lighting the Germans and Turks in Mesopotamia..

■Six hundred troops who had been home for final leave a.t, Auckland passed through Eeilding' for Taiiherenikau camp yeslerelay, conveyed by a- .special train. The long spell of dry weather experienced in tho fox-ton. diis'ti-icil is being kcomly fell-, the coumlry being parched. The wader supply in many households luus practically given out. Mr Anderson, head teacher at Ilukaii'i'iil (Forty-mile Bush), has rather a, good, record to his credrt. For two years ,Ln succession, every pupil in tho Sixth Standard has gained a proficiency certificate. ■ One of New Zealand's best markets for the sale of a.pples is South America, 'and, 'thougn it is ouiily during recent years that our apples have found, a ready market Mii-.ro, large quantities are snipped from Motueka every year. Owiing lo Hbe tla.te arrival ojf (a steamer the Sou.thdown and Horotiu freeaiing works (Auckland) will be closed down .from March 17 to 23, in preparation for next season. The' company ha.s decided to increase the total storage capacity for meat from 110.000 carcasses to 220,000 carcasses.

Te Alowhai School, near Te Awaiinitu, is a. very primitive institution. Mr W. Auld (formerly of Feilding, now ed Hamilton) described it at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board, of which he is a member, as havt.ing till recently been- carried on i.n a. cowshed, hut" having now been '-pirouiote.fi to a tent." ' We. should wake vi) lhe Minister of Education on this matter,' said Mr Auld, "and imust upon so-niel'liiiig lieing done." The lionrd took the same ve-w of the matter, ami decidid lo send an urg'■iif t • -t< •;.-. i;i in lo 1b.,. Minister nil Ihe Milijeel, a-sking that i.roner provi-iou he mad" I'm- a M.-hool building.