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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1907, Page 3

A vigorous protest is made by the liangitilcei Advocate against the Health Department in cancelling its agreement to subsidise the amounts provided by local bodies towards the salaries and expenses of sanitary officers in cases where the municipal authorities were unable to find the whole amount. The Advocate says the departments action will mean the dismissal of a number of inspectors. The system of centralised and local control has, it contends, worked well, and it will bo a great hardship to settlers if the inspectors in country districts are retired.

The dairying season is now about i low ebb about the Rawhitiroa district Taranaki, and the farmers generally are devoting their time to improving their holdings. The milking returns have shown substantial improvements on previous years, and in that particular farmers have been fortunate. I Tho dry weather (according to the Eltham Argus) has, however, had a disastrous effect on some of tho root crops. Turnips and carrots, which largely form tho winter supply for the cattle have been badly affected by some fly or blight. Several acres of turnips having"been completely gutted, tho leaves being full of holes and tho roots all rotted away. Tho potato blight was bad enough in all conscience, but the effect of the disease on turnips and carrots is disastrous. Mangolds, on tho contrary, seem to have come on all right, and those who inted the latter crop are on good terms with themselves seeing the failI uro their neighbours have sustained in tho cattle feeding products.

I Every woman has a tender spot— j May be her heart or only a <rorn. If sore, soft, tender, or hard as horn.— To euro voir ram* far Prn«rmdr» trot— For children's hacking cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 3/6.—Advt.

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