WAKEFIELD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1737, 14 June 1905, Page 28

WAKEFIELD.

(Froni Our Own Correspondent.) What with one thing and another Wakefield people have had a lot to take up their attention with lately. iwo days alter mr D. D. Hyde, poultry expert for the Government, had given his lecture, Mr Roderick McKenzie, M.H.K., addressed the eLectors on the general work of Parliament and the Ministry. He urged the people of the Nelson province to keep the extension of the Midland Railway to the Duller ever before the Ministers, and to give them no peace until they fulfilled the promises so oiten given. He showed that thing's in general were prospering. He approved of the Teachers Superannuation Bill now before Parliament. He traversed the Noxious Weeds Bill and Shops and Factories Act. He thought road boards, etc., were greatly responsible for the noxious weeds, by spreading river gravel on the roads The riverbeds being smothered with gorse, briars, brambles, etc., and the gravel full of roots and seeds. He received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence for his excellent addie.o. Mr J. C. Blackmore, Government pomologist, delivered an, address on friuß growing on Monday 7 night. a fot of valuable information to fruitgrowers and next day a practical demonstration on pruning m Mr James Bruce's orchard. A few points import-. ant in selecting a site for an orchaid and afterwards keeping it in good order are: —Shelter, sunshine, drainage, suitable kind of fruit trees, planting, distance apart, pruning, keeping the ground constantly tilled and free from weeds, reducing the quantity of fruit on trees by hand picking, thereby getting finer fruit, spraying, packing, canning, etc. He offers to give full information to anyone writing to Mr J. C. Blackmore, Government Pomologist, Christchurch." Another improvement is being carried out in the township. The saddler’s shop (an old building) occupied by Mr Geo. Johnson has been pulled down and a more up-to-date building is to be erected in its stead. Mr Janies Thomas, one of our most prominent public men, is at piesenc very The master of the Public school is moving in the direction of organising • "school cadet corps. The boys are will.

ing, and the parents are eager to assist him. The ladies desire Mr B. C. Isaac, the organising inspector for manual and technical education, to inaugurate dressmaking and cookery classes. Many names have been forwarded to him ox those willing to attend. . Miss Clara Elizabeth Baigent, niece of Mrs John Price, of Gum Grove, and daughter of the late Mr Arthur Baigent, was married to Mr James Edgar, of Takaka, in St. John’s Church to-day by the vicar, the Rev, O. It. Hewlett. Mr and Mrs E. W. Rolands, missionaries from Japan, gave an illustrated lecture to-night. The views were beautiful and the account of our brave allies showed that they are a most intelligent, industrious, and progressive nation. The money goes to equip a kinclergaiten school, and deserves the support of ail Christians and well wishers of the Japanese. The weather is frosty with enow on the mountains, but the days are bright and sunny.