STOKE ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 6 May 1903, Page 1

STOKE ROAD BOARD.

, The usual monthly meeting of the 1 Stoke Road Board was held on SatI urday last, Present : Messrs Coleman, Luikow, J. E. Bartlett, A. 1 Allport and A f Chisnall, Mr John . Best was absent through illness. Mr John Glen, Secretary, took the chair, and announced that ■ r Messrs Coleman, Bartlett and Allport had been re-elected. . Mr Lankow proposed, and Mc Bartlett secon'ded T that Mr Coleman be re-elected Chaizman. The motion was carried unanimously, and Mr Coleman thanked the Board far the renewal of confidence. * Mr Allport was re-elected treasurer. The Overseer (Mr John Glen) reported that the bridge at Stoke had been completed ; work was being proceeded with on Pcor Man's Valley road. He recommended th a t It be gravelled from FanzeloW's corner to Birkett's, 75 chains. From Fanzelow's corner to F&nzelow's gate on the Village Road the ruts required to be filed in. The culvert at the foot of Aniseed Valley hill required renewing. Resolved to take extended cover in the Government Insurance Department for accident insurance. Resolved to ask the Waimea County Council for the amount due by Ranger t Resolved to call the attention of the Ranger to stack grazing oc the roads. Accounts amounting to £11- 18s lOd were passed for payment.

Few girls get through their teensi without an attack of stage fever. The majority are snubbed by parents and unfeeling brothers from going any further than possessing themselves of the photographs of favourite "stars," and saving upto go to tlve theatres. Others regard themselves as Terrys nipped in the bud, or as Mary Andersqiis, spoiling for want of an audience with an eye for beauty. Others again struggle hard, and finally make a bid for fame. Of these, the many fail and the very few succeed. The glamour is eternal, however, and no counsels prevail to check the hankering of the pretty young girl for the boardsMrs Kendal has lately contributed to the "Woman's Library" an article on theatrical life, which would be distinctly useful were stage-struck girls amenable to advice So great is the overcrowding evil in the theatrical world that in London alone there are no fewer than three thousand actresses out of employment. The life of the most successful is a supremely hard one while the mediocre and second rate actress is a person deserving : almost unlimited nity. With Punch-like brevity, Wr W, G, Hoitchison— now on a visit to New Zealand from Smith Africa—strongly axlvises "Don't" to those thinking of trying their fortunes in the land that has just emerged from the throes of a three years' war. South Africa, he says, is very much overdone, and is no place to go to at present. No one should go there till things are more settled, unlesa , he has something definite to go to. , The 'towns are full to overcrowding, the country is not yet ready for > settlement, and the Government is not in a position to open up the land sufficiently fast to meet the applications. Johannesburg, as well as the seaports, is full of unemploye a_*h l undreds of them- There are 180 New Zealanders in Johannesburg, and about sixty in PreI toria but not ten per cent of them I are doing well. Of course some ihajve done exceptionally well, but they are very much in 'the minority. Still, when the country does get more settled, there is a grwtu future before it. Mr Hutchison thinks the race question is going to be a very delicate one in Care Colony, but he does not believe there will be any difficulty of moment in that matter in the new colonies. Early in March (says the "Bruce Heraffi") some stalks of wheat which had been grown by various farmers in the Tokomairiro district were forwarded as samples for inspection to the local stock inspector. The wheat had every appearance of being in full bloom, but it was lying on the ground, and ra being uprooted the roots were found to be in a withered condition. Turnips were also attached. The samples were forwarded to-tiie^Gov-ernment biologist (Mr T. W. Kirk), who replied \s follows : - *^The wheat specimens you send have been subjected to a careful microscopic examination. The disease is caused by a fungus known a» black mould in corn. It has evidently been present for several years, but the exceptionally wet season recently experienced has proved very favourable for its rapid spread. It will be well to avoid sowing wheat on infected areas, if possible. In any cavse avoid seed from such areas. Be sure to burn all husks, etc., from such wheat, as the germs will remain in the chaff. The straw from infested patches should also be destroyed, if possible, in order to check the spread of the fungus spores." - . -'■'