LOCAL AND GENERAL- .

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 1553, 3 October 1930, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL- .

The “equinoctial gales” raged with unusal violence daring tbs past weekend, bat have been followed since Wednesday, by beaatifal sonny weather. Nights have been cold, with indications of frost locally.

The m. a. Bonaki, wbtob has been delayed in northern parte during the week-end, is expected to arrive in Kawbia i ext week. The s.s. Arapawa will call at Kawbia to-morrow from Wanganui.

Meiers Oldbnry and 00. are reclining with a more powerful motor the engine which formerly supplied power for their electric plant and trials ere stated to be giving every satisfaction.

For the exoallont diversity of the eudjecta contained in this week's Issue of ths “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” and the wonderful reproduction) this number deserves hearty commendation. A plessing souvenir of Mr Arthur Selby, tbe Grind Old Man of tbe Turf, ia Io found In the attractive coloured supplement.

“What we ere sll in need of st Home is your co-operative methode,” mid Mr Richmond, of Berkshire, England, who arrived at Wellington on a holiday trip by the Ruapehu. “Firming is in a vary depressed state In the Old Country,” be added. “I think your methode in regard to the handling of products and Government stamping are just what we need in England io make farming a better proposition. Such things have o ctainly been tried there in tbe past b»i many co-operative factories have not done very well. If we bandied our products on the same principle aa you we should not need so much of your exports.”

During the disouiafonin Parliament on the second reading of tbe Gsming Amendment Bill on Thursday afternoon, Mr W. J. Broadtoot (Government, Waitomo) eaid that last year there had been a hundred and one applications from religious bodies for permission io hold art unions. The principle was the same as batting on horse racing. He said that if people were permitted io telegraph beta they were likely to be satisfied with tbe investment of £l, whereas if they attended a meeting they might bo induced to bet on each race. Raterring to tbe publication ot dividends, Mr Broadfoet asked why the public should not bs told these details openly. Those who wanted to know should find out In any case by tiptoeing round tbs cornet to a bookmaker.

Seagulls continue to cause trouble and anxiety io sheepmen in some parts ot the district by their ravages among tbe new-born lambs (says a Hawks's Bay paper). Io most oases the lambs are attacked almost immediately after birth and their eyes are picked out. One farmer in tbe Orownthorpe district, who has been particularly troubled as a result of the gull’s activities, recently noticed blood around the mouths of lambi attacked, and being curious to find the cause of this, and set a watch in ona of his paddocks, as a result of which be found that the seagulls were picking the tongues as well as the eyet out of the lambs. This condition of affairs in regard io seagulls, is, so far as is known, unprecedented in Hawke’s Bay or eleswbsre in the Dominion.