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Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 40

, a, nine-acre paddock of turnips being fed off by 1300 wethers. The correspondent of £- £he Herald measured the turnips carefully, I the result being 60i tons to the acre. Recent'y the Mayor of Ohristchurch reE ceiyed from the Farmers' Union an application for 16 men for farm work (says the Press). So v far, however, only four have ■?--been procured, and as no others are forth- \ coming it would appear that any complaint f ''-a* to shortage' of work is based on wrong V information. The iron steamer Timaru, which went £.- aground- at the Tweed River, New South :-."--WaSes. a few days ago, and was towed oh 0 | by the tug Bearer, is a vessel of 459 tons I . gross, and was buil* in 1883 by Messrs R I Thompson and Sons, of Sunderland, for the - New Zealand coastal trade. Her engines vrer« supplied by Messrs \V. Doxward and Sons, of Sunderland. She was employed in the New Zealand trade for some years I under command of Captain Keeble, and Y- •was then purchased by an Australian company.