King Country Chronicle Wednesday, March 1, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 341, 1 March 1911, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, March 1, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

$ In our Matiere notes will be found a complete refutation of the suggestion conveyed in a recent paragraph received from the Ohura, that the Northern Ohura Medical Association was at fault in regard to the subsidies payable by the Government to the doctor. We regret that our original correspondent was not better informed before sending the item on to us for publication. On the 21st February the New Zealand Dairy Association Ltd., distributed amongst its milk suppliers £42,516 os lOd. These payments cover butter fat which was supplied ! to their several creameries during the | month of January. The corresponding ! payments last year were £23,053 13s I 7d. Thus the increase for the month ! as compared with last year is £19,i 462 12s 3d. i The Loan and Mercantile Co. will i offer to-morrow, in conjunction with Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., on account of Mr A. W. Bicknell, at Taihape, his valuable town property, horses, harness, etc. This includes freehold and leasehold lands, the Clydesdale entire "Young Elderslie," 25 working horses in hard feed and subject to trial, waggons, lorrie, express, tip drays, spring cart, wool dray, d.f. plough, stumping jack, Avery safe, oats, chaff, coke, coal, timber and sundries, also 25 sets of harness. The notice of sale is short, but this is a special chance for contractors, carters and carriers to obtain useful additions to their plant and _ stock. Since February Ist, 70 new children have been admitted to Te Kuiti public school. The number on the roll is now 270 and the average attendance 246. Harvest thanksgiving services were held on Sunday in St. Luke's church, Te Kuiti, the preacher at both services being the Rev. E. S. Wayne. The church was very prettily decorated with corn, hops, sunflowers, etc. Appropriate harvest hymns were sung, and Mrs Rouse sang "0 Rest in the Lord" as a solo at the evening service. The paragraph referring to the three applications for the granting of the freehold of native township leases in our last issue needs a little explanation. It means that out of a number ! of applications which passed through | the Court three of them were with- | held until certain procedure had been I complied with. It did not mean that I the Court was suspending all transfers. Some of the trophies to be competed for at Te Kuiti sports to-day may be seen in Mr C. Chilcott's window. A handsome cup presented by Messrs Albrechtsen and Chilcott is to be I presented to the winner (on points) of ! the athletic events, and the gold j medal presented by Mr E. J. Tomp- | son, is for the points prize in the ! chopping events. A medal presented I by "Mr Coles for the ladies' race ! and a handsome gold medal made to | order for the Mokauiti Sports Club j are also on view. ! The Health Department intends to j strictly enforce section 50 of the ! Public Health Act, in its application to Maoris ai well as Europeans in future. Powers are given under the Act to enable a district health officer, an inspector, or a Justice of the peace to order a dead body to be removed to a mortuary or be buried at once. It is understood that the section upon which Messrs Wright and.Rutherford's smithy stands in Rora street has changed hands at a substantial figure—£l2so, so it is said. Rumour > : further gives it that the new pro- | prietor intends to erect a coffee i palace, That there is ample room ; for such a venture is undoubted. j The outcry on all sides is for more | accommodaton, and especially for I working men. A meeting of the general committee of the King Country Central A. and P. Association will be held in the office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company on Saturday at 4 p.m. New regulations covering the carriage of grain and other agricultural produce have been issued by the Railway Department. Sacks to be carried by rail must not contain more than 2001b of any cereal or other produce, except potatoes, for which the limit is 2241b. The charge of four times the ordinary freight for sacks containing more than the specified quantity has been abolished, and a charge of 10s per ton, in addition to the ordinary charges is to be made for any sack that exceeds the weight prescribed. Mr J. R. Graham notifies in our advertisement columns that on Saturday he will sell 6 hacks without reserve; also other horses and waggon, 50 cases of fruit, and many other iines too numerous to detail. Owing to large entries the sale will commence promptly at 1 o'clock. Mr Graham will also offer at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday a 4-roomed dwelling and 2 : £ acres of land. Easy terms and the reserve is low. The Hon. T. Mackenize, Minister of Agriculture, who has been introducing the Scottish Agricultural Commissioner to the experimental station activity of this department, took occasion while in the north to inspect the pumice country, vast areas of which in the centre of the island are lying idle and in the light of present knowledge of them are almost entirely useless. From what Mr Mackenize saw of them he believes they form a good field for the agriculturalist experimentalist, and, while he does not consider that they can be made of any considerable economic value to the agriculturist, there are certain portions which, when the correct method of treating them is discovered, can be turned to profitable account.