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Otago Witness, Issue 3860, 6 March 1928, Page 31

Owing to the great falling off in the milk supply the price has been raised in Morrinsville by Id per quart. Trials of smokeless fuel for banking and lighting fires at the railway engine sheds at Linwood (says the Christchurch Press) have been markedly successfull from the point of view of eliminating the smoke _ nuisance, and the residents have During the past three weeks upwards of 40,000 sheep, mostly breeding ewes, have come in to the Waikato from outside districts, particularly from Poverty Bay (says a northern exchange). All the roads through the Bay of Plenty and Rotorua districts have been thronged. Work on the reconstruction of the Addington railway workshops is now in full swing, and the carpenters’ shop is expected to be completed next month (says the Lyttel ton Times). Owing to some delay in obtaining the steel framework from the Old Coufifry owing to the coal strike, the erection of new buildings did not commence as early as was hoped for, but they will all be completed within the time allowed. Practically all the work now being carried out, is in the hands of contractors. . ;.