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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 October 1925, Page 4

Another latL left Hawera this morning to join the Atlienie, which is still in Wellington, awaiting a crew. The -Stratford! Acclimatisation. Society have- liberated 90,000 brown trout fry in the Patea, Maunganui, Kahouri, Gentle Annie, Konnu and other streams (says the Post). A considerable quantity of timber has been going int oGreymeuth fateiy from the Westlond mills. East week a train arrived from Ross carrying about 250 000 feet, and another on the following day from the same j locality, drawn by two engines, carried a -Simula r quantity. The Railway Department finding no trouble in coping with these large quantities. In nation to these trains, other oonsideia&le quantities of timber are reaching Greynioutii from the Grey Valley and Otua dl &me rather extraorClnary questions are put to political candidates at election time. In a South Island electorate, for instance, a solemn grey-haaied farmer rose at a meeting addressed by a candidate to inquire if he would support, legislation to prevent people on small sections of a °f an aere or so keeping bees, which he declared was harmful to farmers’ pastures, as it prevented the fertilisation of, clover. The candidate relieved his anxiety by explaining that the position was the other way about, and that the humble bee had been imported by the ment for the express purpose of fertilising red clover. , _ . , The New Zealand Farmers’ Union at its last conference passed a remit urging the Railway Department to mstal an electric light of a, particular colour at dangerous level orosisngs. Ite Railway Board, in replying, to the Dominion secretary of the< union, _ spates that, as a result of considerable investigation, the level crossing warning appliances in .use in New Zealand have so, far been confined to autorqatic warning bells and the “wig-wag” type. Reliable operation has been obtained with both types of signal. At the present time the department has a large list of crossr ngsyet to be fitted with warning appliances, and these are being installed in, the lordejn of their urgency.