GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6944, 25 June 1929, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

Several lambs, probably the first o£ the season in the Manawatu, arc to be seen at present on Mr. W. A. Thomson ’3 farm at Kairanga. “Social and economic unrest,” is Mr. A. E. Hansford’s subject at the Citizens’ Lunch club to-day. Mr. J. A. Grant will be in the chair. Lou Hutt, a New Zealand League football representative forward, has accepted an engagement with the St. Helens League club. England, and will leave Auckland early nest month. A Hardgraves accepted a similar engagement last week, states an Auckland message.

A deficiency of £196 2s lid is. shown in the bankrupt estate'of John Eewcti, labourer, of Bulls. There are no assets, while all debts arc owed to unsecured creditors, namely Levin and Co. Ltd. £l5O, Edwards and Sons £5 9s sd, J. E. Walker £S 15s, S. Avery £lB, Martini and Gov. £9, Hohcpa Kunleroa £1 ISs 6d.

On the basis of the world-coal production of 1927, which was 1.270,000,000 tons, the world’s coal resources will last for at least -1000 years. Tn regard to oil resources, the United States Geological Survey, it is stated, has established a preliminary estimate of over 6,000,000 tons, capable of supplying present production for about 10 years.

Sir Charles Ecrgusson, the GovernorGeneral, is first a soldier. But his farming instincts run military interests a elose second, says an exchange. Good Avrshiremen always know a good beast when they see one. It is suspected that the one blot on the Governor-Gen-eral’s happy term in New Zealand has been a secret sorrow at the popularity of Jerseys and Holstcins, while the honest, beefy Ayrshire is kept relatively in the background. Sixty odd yours ago the Governor-General’s father, Sir James Ecrgusson, took over a place in the Waikato, and one may be sure that ho stocked it with Ayrshire's. The old homestead can still bo seen, bc-side the Waikato river, between Cambridge and Arapuni. New Zealand is a different country to-day, but the second of the Fcrgussons knows, as his father did, a good cow and a good stretch of pasture. He has given the Manawatu A, and A. Association, a cup for the Ayrshire cattle section. That may help to put these Jerseys and Friesians in their places.