—lt costs about 5s a day for chlorine to supply a sterilising machine which can handle 10,000,000 gallons of water in that period..
Annie Hanlon, a married woman, aged 47, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment in Christchurch for shoplifting. On three separate occasions she took goods fro the D.1..C. of a total value of £2 Ss 6d. “ There is a woeful waste of cocksfoot in the Rangitata district,” said Mr W. G. Gallaugher, at a recent meeting of the Ashburton County Council (reports an exchange). “We are losing hundreds of pounds annually.” It did not seem reasonable, the speaker added, that so much should be wasted when there was such a lot of unemployment in the country. It would pay the council in future seasons to employ men to harvest the cocksfoot. It was decided that the inspector be asked to report on the condition and growth of the cocksfoot in the county in December next.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3911, 26 February 1929, Page 68
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