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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10692, 16 May 1906, Page 4

Mr Bishop, S.M., at Christchurch, has intimated his intention of using the powers conferred under the Evidence Act nl hist session to compel individuals who are charged with .nrocunng liquor whilst prohibited to state where they obtained their supplies. "I consider that a number , of thc Government Departments m "vv'ellingt<ni .should be abolished," said Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., at a social garnering m the iVlasterton Borough- Council Cuainbers. "The work should be distributed amongst local bodies, because I think that tney contain men well able to camout tlie work." Speaking to a reporter concerning his visit to tlie Auckland district, the Minister for Mines. 'said tliat the mining outtook m the district is hopeful. The iarge and steady output of gold from the Waiotahi mine at tlie Thames, and the consequent declaration of regular dividends, ua6 put heart into shareholders, m the other mining properties m, the district, and the prospects, generally speaking, are encouraging. Mining operations m the Upper Thames district are being carried on with great vigor. An immense amount of Avork is being carried on m the Waihi mine, and even if no more reefs are dis-coA-ered the present lodes will, it i s esti. mated; provide the company with sufficient payable 6tone to keep its mills going for the next seven years. - Apropos of Colonel Kitchener's letter m the Evening Post a few days ago advocating modified" conscription for New Zealand, Lieut. -Col. Bauchop was interviewed by. a- Lyttelton Times reporter. :*I think New Zealand is coming to it," lie said. Iv Australia, Colonel Bauchop continued, a very large number of people were quite prepared to adopt a universal system of compulsory military service. Schemes had been Avorked out before, buc nobody had ever had the initiative to cany them through. In South Africa, however, the people entered willingly into a system of compulsory training m -schools, realising the value of their own trained men had been to Imperial troops fighting m t-lmt country. Lord Milner had greatly favore* the scheme. Soldiering m: New Zealand Avas at a low ebb. partly! because the athletically inclined men did not include it m their conception of public duty, preferring, to turn to their football, cricket, and so on. Soldiering was regarded as coming after sport. Too often the general opinion here Avas that the colony should wait to see what Great Britain Avould do; hut New Zealand liad not waited for Great Britain m regard to land tenure, and the Avomen'6 frauchise, and should not wait for a. lead with such a scheme as indicated by Colonel Kitchener. A company h;is just been formed m London (without the issuo of a prospectus or other recourse to the public) with a capital of £800,000, all of which wa6 subscribed m about ten days by such men as Sir George Newnes, Sir Wm. Avery,. Sir James Joioey, Sir John Brunner, the brothers Hurmswortli, Sir Wm. Ramsay, and others, for the purpose of working the shale measures m the C'aperteo and Woigan Valleys, New - South Wales., Mr D. A. Sutherland, one: of the worlds best. known oil experts, was despatched from England to report 'on options held o\'er 20 square. miles of sliale country, and he left Sydney last- week on his return to England for the purpose of obtaining retorting and refining plants. The development Avork of the company includes the construction of, 27£ miles of railway at a cost- of £85,000, the driving of expensive tunnels and' sinking of shafts to cut the shale beds. And when the shale is brought to the surface it yields' about 30 gallons of oil to the ton. Even at this rate the New South Wales Shale and Oil Company, which has been acquired by the new company for £35,000. has, during tffe last 32 years of working, made profits aggregating £330,000, although its operations stopped at the export of Tilgh-grd.de pilule*. and the making of ga6-oils and candles. The new corporation Avill produce lubricating and .illuminating oils, , the . projects invol>'ing the establishment, of * retorting and refining plants of a- treating, capacity of 600 tons per day, which will provide only for the^ local production of about one-sixth of Australia's imports of kerosene. Another effort -is to be made to cultivate sugar beetroot, m the Waikato for dairy and commercial purposes. Mr Graham, speaking at; a meeting of settlers, said he advocated only the cultivation of beet as a preparatory crop, for grain, for milk, for butter, but not for sugar. The excess of sugar m- the roots he regarded under these circumstances as a by-product, or. a- •reserve fund, as it were, for future operations. The- sugar beet was only intended to take the place of the mangold --or turnip on small areas, to enable the subrttban settler to make "his section pay him its full value itt conjunction with other crops. It avow 1 d restore the time-honored four course system of agriculture,' viz. (1) wheat or oats, the latter preferred; (2) barley.; (3) sugar beet; (4) wheat.-- All these products would be fed on the homestead, to dairy:- 6tock or consumed m family use. He suggested that landowners should set apart 10 or 20 per cent, of their estates for' small sections to be cultivated by families on thc methods recommended and should arsist them with stock on shares. Several other settlers gaA-c evidence as to the value of beet as a food for dairy cattle. One said that, one ton cf beets Avas as valuable to him. as four tons of mangolds for his cows; another stated' that he had obtained 16 tons of beets from one -acre of his land, and a third mentioned, that his small crop liad. f;iven 20 per cent, of 'sugar. An Auckand firm has undertaken to forward samples of average Waikato soilfor analysis to Europe and to obtain the very best class of seed and manure for a 10-acre test of roots, the seed and manure to arrive m September next, and tibe seed' to be distributed m small lots to those who (Jesu^to join the. association.

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