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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 91, 15 March 1935, Page 6

Owing to tlie lack of rain, is a scarcity of mushrooms in the Wellington district. This has been reflected in the market price this week. For the second time this summer the Ohau River lias run dry at the bridge on the main road, says the Levin Chronicle. This is due to the shortage of water, when the river reaches this part, as it disappears beneath the bed, coming to the surface further down.

In the course of a passing reference during the farewell accorded him at Wellington last evening, His Excellency fhe Governor-General indicated that Their Excellencies had offered the All Blacks their hospitality when they make their journey through the Homeland. Nobody would be better pleased to see them in England than himself, said Lord Bledisloe. To-day is the 36tli anniversary of the commencement of (he great hurricane at Samoa when H.M.S. Calliope added lustre to British naval records as being the only warship to be saved, steaming out to the open sea with the help of Westport coal. Three German and three American naval vessels were driven ashore at Apia, oil the island of Upolu, during the two days’ storm and were destroyed, about 96 Germans and 50 Americans losing their lives. Captain Kane, who was in command of the Calliope, was thanked by the Admiralty for his skill and seamanship. According to the Investors' Journal there is a shortage of cottage property throughout the Dominion clue to the repressive legislation ot recent years which forced the land market out of existence. Our contemporary says: “it is obvious that before tlie land business can revive, and people be tempted to build homes we must ascertain with some degree of certainty the value ot land tor different utilities. That values must be on a different and much lower basis than tliuse ruling prior to 1929 is generally admitted, l>ut no one can forecast what that basis will be uhtil a market is established. And there must again be such a market, for it is only through market operations that prospective buyers and sellers can get an idea of prospective values, such values as would lead them to buy or sell. . . .

Land values must find their true economic level, but that may take some time owing to the inevitable resistance that will be offered to value clipping. Tliero should not be much difficulty in respect of urban and suburban property, because such property does not offer the same political returns as do tho country properties, and it is in respect of these that we will see what we will see. We cannot go on as we are doing, we must have a land market with some stability in values. Without a land market, without transactions in land, or real estate the progress of the Dominion would he arrested.”

Do you know tho reason for the rage in tinsel lames. It is because these gorgeous fabrics were chosen for the Royal Wedding. Always abreast ot the times, we banked on the New Zealand girl taking up this great lead. Think of a wedding frock in glistening silver or gold, the bridesmaids similarly bedecked. What a wonderful picture tho wedding ensemble would he. lAm os in the new Clokys. crepes and plain weaves in silver, steel and bright or burnished gold are hero for the Easter and the June bride. They will he scarce. May we show our wonderful assortment to vou Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd. — Advt.