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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 141, 16 May 1936, Page 8

It was reported to tlio Auckland police yesterday that Miss Fdith Gaunt, of 66 Portland Hoad, Hemuora, was attacked alter dark by an unknown man, who disappeared after the occurrence. As an instance of the moving population of the cities of New Zealand, Dr. J. W. Mcllwraith, senior inspector of schools, stated to the New Zealand Educational Conference in Wellington yesterday that a city headmaster had informed him that a third of his pupils left every year. Returning from Christchurch yesterday in the Puss Moth machine in which he and Mr F. D. Herrick, of Hawke’s Bay, intend to fly to England via the East and Russia, Mr I'. C. Chichester, of Wellington, made a landing in the dark at Rongotai aerodrome. Flares were lit on the ground to guide him. A New Plymouth veterinary surgeon was called to a curious ease recently. He had to investigate the death of eight fowls, which had all died shortly after feeding. The surgeon decided to examine the gullets, all of which were found to be fulj of flying ants. After a further investigation he came to the conclusion that the ants secrete a small amount of poison and that the large number swallowed provided enough to kill an animal the size’of a fowl. Privilege claimed by a Government official in the Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday, when he was asked to produce documents, was refused by Mr Justice Northcroft. Witness, an official of the Labour Department at Ashburton, was asked, to produce statements made by an applicant for sustenance, but lie claimed that the documents, being State confidential documents, were privileged. In the absence of a certificate from the Minister for Labour, and because it appeared that one party in the action already knew part of the contents of the statements, His Honour ruled that the statements must be released. Tlic intensive elimination process by which the Plant Research Station had arrived at another and selected ryegrass seed for propagation on a commercial scale was outlined by Mr E. Bruce Levy (agrostologist), in a lecture to members of young farmers’ clubs at the experimental areas yesterday. He stated that 20,000 single ryegrass plants had been tested and a selection narrowed down to the ten best, based on their qualities in respect of palatability, rustresistance, persistence, and recovery after cutting. They had then been cultivated under glass-house conditions, producing enough seed to sow an acre, and from the latter sufficient seed for twenty acres. Tliirty-two acres were now being grown on a Kairanga property from which it was hoped to secure 800 bushels of certified ryegrass seed.

Emphasis on the fact that field days should be an annual fixture, and on the wealth of practical information which could be acquired, was voiced by Mr H. J. Lancaster, president ot the Rongotea Young Farmers’ Club, when representatives of lour such organisations spent some very useiul hours attending lecture demonstrations yesterday at the Plant Research Station’s experimental plots. Mr Lancastei stated that because of their instructive value, young farmers’ clubs should be established throughout New Zealand. The visit made to the plots yesterday was the second one, recently, by an organised party, 'and indicates an awakening to the actualities ot the splendid work being done thcic to. establish the fundamentals of farming. Considerable enthusiasm was evident. Though other divisions of the 1 lant Research Station are to be moved Horn this centre, the grasslands section will continue to be controlled at 1 aiinerston North, and the experimental plots will remain, so that future visits may lie made by farming organisations.

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