GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6756, 8 November 1928, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

On the Feilding page to-day, Sim sons' have an announcement of inter est to men.

The steamer C. A. Larsen left Wellington at 12.35 o’clock for Stewart Island where she rejoins the whale chasers of the Ross Sea fleet. “It amuses me to hear remarks about the working farmer,” observed the Prime Minister at Bulls yesterday. “It a farmer doesn’t work, he won’t last long on his farm.” Repairs having been effected to the approach to the Makotuku railway viaduct, which was damaged by fire on Tuesday morning, through train traffic on the Hawke’s Bay line was resumed yesterday morning.

Owing to some confusion at Mr. Holland's meeting at Hutt on Tuesday night, it was supposed that a vote of thanks only was passed. The chairman of the meeting, however, states that a vote of thanks and confidence was passed, without dissent. —Press Assn,

It is not <jften that many sharks Of the sea-going variety are found in the vicinity of Wanganui, but some fishermen haife secured a number,, recently. Pishing off the beach below the South Spit they caught ten sharks, two of which were of the blue variety, one being 7ft. in length. Reports from the country indicate that there is heavy mortality among lambs in South Canterbury, but it is satisfactory to know that at least some farmers are escaping these losses. A farmer from the Fairlie district, who was in Timaru recently, told a “Herald” reporter that, although ho has a fairly big flock of sheep, he has not lost one lamb this season. He added that he did not know to what he could attribute his good fortune in this respect, as he did not treat his flock in any special way. i Exceptionally high tides have been experienced on the Hauraki Plains rivers and drains during the past few days. The Piako and Waihou rivers have been abnormally high and new high-level records were created. Many drains were unable to function effeient]y and some country was flooded. At the Ngatea butter factory the high level of the river prevented the waste water from flowing away and the water was eight or nine inches deep in the stokehold. Near Hopai, a portion of the stoplftmk broke away and a farm was inundated to a depth of several feet. The bank was quickly rebuilt by the employees of the Lands Department when the tide receded.