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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12545, 12 April 1904, Page 6

The Napier Telegraph says that, on the road to Moliaka, near tho Maori pa, there lias been a very fertile basinwhich appeal's to hwe formerly been the river bed —but as a result of the late floods it has been converted into a lake. The traveller, as he passes, may now gaze on the unusual i spectacle of fields of maize growing in a lake! A Dunedin cyclist, who rode to Outram recently, left his bicycle in the yard of one of the hotels, and on returning to i* found that the tyre had been deliberately backed about. Another visitor to Outram (says the Advocate) rode to Outram one night, and left his horse outside a hotel, and wh»n he returned he found his steed minus its tail. The chief health officer has written to the Nelson City Council, certifying that a hospital for infectious diseases is necessary for Nelson, and that the public bodies to contribute to the provision of such hospital are the Nelson City Council, the Richmond Borough Council, the V.aimea County Co oil, the Mo tusk a Borougl Council,, and the Collingwood County Conn cil. Mr. T. York (says the Lytte.ton Times) has had an experience in one of his orchards at Woolston that seems to controvert the theory of the necessity of rotation of crops.For 18 years he has cropped the ground with mangels, and'his average return J has been about 60 tons to the acre. - , -,; viei is exceptionally large, and Mr. | leiK a - tributes it to'the richness of and the benefit to be derived from .Thema tic cultivation.