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Otago Witness, Issue 2672, 31 May 1905, Page 59

€URHN» AT KOU«H RIDGE. As the ice is good and the frost continues, the Rough Ridge Curling Club will open it 3 new season to-day, when a team from Blackatone Hill will try conclusions at the " roarin' " game. As the crab has extended its curling pond to more than twice the size it wsi3 last year, there is room for all the curlers that can attend. The Premier, who is patron to the club, has p-romis-ed to visit the ice to-morrow (Saturday) on his way from Naseby to Ophir. Any visitors from Dunedm will be coTdiaUy welcomed on the ice, and as the curling pond is within 50 yards of the train and there is ample hotel accommodation lovers of the scame cannot do better than take a ticket to Rough Ridge. Any information with respect to the ice can be obtained from Mr R. S. Black, Octagon, i^resiclent oi the Hub; or from Mr A. C. I3~ip, secretary. Rough Ridge.

The Auckland Provincial Branch of the Farmers' Union, which ba<? just held its annual conference, is heartily in agreement with the Government in its action in stoppin? the erection of works for sterilising bonedust. On most of tlv? Auckland lands the use cf bonerlunt is essential, and anyihing that is likely to increase the co<t of ir materially is. likely to be opposed by the Auckland farmers.