AUCKLAND NEWS NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
AUCKLAND, December 9.
The present strawberry season is likely to prove one of the vrorst known, owing to cold winter rains and frost. A slow spring and a dry summer are responsible for this result. There has never before been so large an acreage as this year, and favourable weather would-have made a difference of some thousands- of pounds to the Birkenhead and Northcote districts. Many plantations are already withering, and rain is urgently needed. Instructions have been given to the city solicitor to prepare debentures for the raising of the first £50,000 of the Auckland city loan. The matter will be pushed on immediately after the opening of the new year. An effort is to be made to raise the money locally, so that the interest may not have/to be sent out of the city and district. '
_ The increase of weasels in the district is becoming greater every year, and farmers are suGering thereby. A Rcmuer'a resident killed a weasel and several young ones in a haystack on his property yesterday morning. Close by was a hen's nest containing eggs, all of which had been sucked by the weasel. Another weasel a day.or two ago was chased in Lower Vincent street in the city, but got away. ' . .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11603, 11 December 1899, Page 6
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