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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12586, 17 October 1911, Page 9

'At the annual meeting , of . the South land Farmers' Association last ,week y h was deemed necessary, to write down tin £5 shares by 30s to square losses extend ing over the past ten years, ., the tota. being over £9000. . A new inauager hai been engaged, and the directors looi forward; to better business, m, future ;re storing the value of, shar&Si' ;

At Blackball it has been decided tlm. the publicans throughout t Grey elector ate be asked to make a reduction n the retail price of beer to fourpence pei. pint and threepence per . half pint. I\ was also decided thatAshwhK lfche replj from the publicans b£ ' unsatisfactory, /i. ballot be taken at the ininp to- test- tht feeling m regard to giving a. mock, pro iiibition vote. ' , ' ■.'.;■'. .' v Speaking: at the Harbpvi':: Conference; Mr H. Friedlander said |he ■ Lyttelton Harbor s ßoard had called, for tenders, f^i dredbe buckets, and, m a desire U. assist local industry, let the contract tc a New Zealand firm, a,t"a- cost of some £50 or £60 more than the „ miportep article. Vyhat was .the '.result? Hit articles were received,' 'tested, and fo«na wanting. "They were. 'returned, and the firm "kindly made another attd: heavioi. ! set. "I can assure delegates, said Mi Triedlander, '\that not one of thost buckets' out of the whole lot stood the test. As soon as they were put on the dredge they went to pieces. At .the same time the Board imported buckets as a stand-bys 'And them /satisfactory. Even if a local-made /article . was given for nothing, it would, not pay the board to put it. on the dredge." ,