EKETAHUNA FARMERS CLUB.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 586, 22 December 1897, Page 4

EKETAHUNA FARMERS CLUB.

A meeting of the Ekrlalmna Fanners ('lull was held on Saturday la.-l in Carter's Temperance Hotel, Mr Anderson, pre admit, in the eliair. Correspondence from Mr Hogg on the compilation of the Settlers’ Handbook was read. The .secretary wrote sending a sample to Mr Kirk of a thi tie wliuh w.i; found on several properties in the disriet. Mr Kirk Haid the specimen v decidedly the ( alifornianor ( lunudi tie lh. The secretary urged on tho n her I lie necessity of eradicating it if po ibis. 11l reply to a letter sent to tie Railway Department re freight on wool a schedule of charges was forward ed, which really shows no reduction.

Mr I’rydc then read n puDer on the tiiiomalies of railway freights and charges of distribution of goods, showing that it required a great change to bring the consumer and tlie producer together so as to make

products a source of revenue to the settlers. The speaker quoted extracts of charges from different parts of the colony, and also charges made in the Australaian colonies. He stated that his principal object was to see a general discussion on the subject, so that the matters mentioned might receive attention from the Farmer's Club. The only reduction really made by the Department was on fruit and vegetables. Mr Pryde also quoted the prices charged in N.S.W., and also the prices charged for delivery in the city, which was 6d up to 1-lOlbs, and Is up to 2ewt, and in dealing with packages anything could be sent not the same as in New Zealand with its hundred-and-one different classes which we were pestered with here. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Pryde and the Club promised to take action at once.

The following fishing licenses have been issued at Puhiatua to date :—Messrs Thomas Gore, Joseph Henry Berry, Wm. J. Bennet, C. J. Norton, J. M. Levin, Rev. H. M. B. Marshall, Robert Seymour, P. J. Quirk, F. B. Wilson. James O. Barker, Clias Morris, E. S. Barton, John Blair, C. Ridd, Chas. N‘ Hodder, Thos. Reid, J. Mackinlay, Thos. Dray, G. Marley, G. Polglase, W. Dunning, W. P. Jeffery, C. R. Hewett, M. Quirke, W. H. Bayley, John Gregory, Wm. Saunders, H. W. Briggs, G. A. Williams, T. Brown, J. Mcßain, G. H. Smith, V. E. Donald, A. G. Smith, H. W. Wilson, Harry Vile, Jas. Wm. Gardner, H. Brimicombe, G. Matthews, A. Futcher; Masters E. Matthews, F. Jenkins, J. F. S. Briggs, W. Hyde, M. Peterson, R. Gregory, W. J. Morrison, A. Larsen, W. Wilson, H. Parker, H. Sinclair, C. Grut, A. G. Anderson, R. Bly, A Wakeford, A. Eddie, W. Bottomley, C. A. Barrel], L. S. Barrell, M. F. Murphy, W. Thompson, B. A. Vile, W. Judd, O. Richardson, and A. Fraser; Mesdames A. Marley and R. Marsh.

Mr James Perdue, an old soldier re siding at Monroe, Mich., was severe!} afflicted with rheumatism but received prompt relief from pain by using Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. He says : * At times my back would ache so badl\ that I could hardly rise up. If I had not gotten relief I would not bo here U write these few lines. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm has done me a great deal of good and I feel very thankful for it.’ For sale by C. Ridd, chemist.