WOOL CLASSING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 17 October 1910, Page 5

WOOL CLASSING.

An important proposal is afoot in this district, and one that will appeal to all the wool farmers and should get their united support. It is that a wool'classing depot should be v located at Patea, and that all the farmers who choose should be able to get their wool classed there. Mr McGregor^ the expert who is on the staff of the Wanganui Education Board, is endeavoring to make suitable arrangements, and if the proposed scheme comes off he will do the work. The cost to each farmer will, of course, be proportioned to the amount of his clipj but the more who come in the cheaper the work can be done. The Patea Harbor Board, we understand, will allow the use of one of their sheds, and are doing all in their power to facilitate matters in regard to the scheme. All that is wanted is hearty backing by the farmers. Mr A. Hunter and Mr T. Winks, who are actively working, intend to call a meeting of farmers for Saturday next. It is to be hoped that, recognising the advantages and benefits to be gained, they will attend largely and thereby ensure success.

The King of Spain, according to a gossip x is said to possess a rather gruesome museum — nothing less than a collection of articles associated with attempts on his life. Included in the collection are the knife with which a man attempted to assassinate him when he was a boy, the skin of a horse that was killed by a bomb when tho T <in<T was out driving in the streets of Paris, and some mementoes of the outrage in Madrid on the day of his Majesty's weddmg. During the second quarter of this year says a White Paper, 133,744 alien immigrants landed in the United Kingdom, .making the total for the first half of the year 222,686. Aliens leaving numbered 29,535, and during the quarter 129 expulsion orders were made.