WELLINGTON NOTES.
(Fsoh Om Own Correspondent.^
WELLINGTON, May 13. Mr Qlifton (chief inspector of stock) says that farmers in Otago and Canterbury are going in more extensively for wheat-grow-ing than was the case last- year,'and there will be a record area sown in North Otago and South Canterbury. The turnip cropa have not turned out well, growth having been choekod by tho extremely dry weather since the beginning of the year. The Hon. Mr Hall-Jones states that everything in connection with the railways has gone up. They cost more to build and more to maintain. There has been an increase in the H;iges bill of £55,000, and only two or three years ago a similar sum for a like purpose was provided. Commissioner Diniiie says it is not correct, as reported in a Dimedin telegram, that- there is a scarcity of recruits for tho polico force. The number of applicants is not as large as it was a year or so ago but. there Is not- the slightest difficulty in filling up all vaoancics.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14213, 14 May 1908, Page 8
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