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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12752, 2 May 1912, Page 2

/y.r W. Evans"; hairier of the racing mai--9.Coral.iina,- when on a visit ; to Batijiirst (N.S.'W.) .m connection with the .'.local, races,- was robbed of a vest contiiihihg /£2O , and a watch and chain. -He placed, the: vest beneath'ihis pillow on retiring to bed, and the" following morning found it had disappeared. Quißstipned at iHawera, as to , next years canip ? ColoneJ Malone said it would take the form of «. brigade eneampiheht, which would be attended by ftll'.the.^infa'ntry. regiments composing the Wellington 1 Brigade, of which Taranaki Was' a unit. ' Some 4000 territorials would then be under canvas. The 'camp would mltat' probably be held at Marton. There is a. : geheral .complaint ux, the Kurow district at present concerning the shortage of farm labor., A farmer with whom an Otago Daily Times' re--1 porter ljad a. conversation last week mentioned that this year, he had only 150 apre^ under crop, \vhile last .year he had:" 4&o> He' ,couid, not*, .''procure labor fo.iV. Ibye or moiiev,, though he tried for it in' Tipiaru, , Qahiarii, and D N uiiedin,' and £heyefove decided _t6 content himself with 150 acreil, which he and hia sons harvested themselves. It is not'Yi^ht, he. contends, that the Government tfnould be employing men on co-operative works to. the hindrance of farmers., "Next year," he continued. "I will have 15 ac;rs aiid no more under crop, and some of my neighbors will" have next to none at all. Until labor is available we will not do anything, because we cannot WtrA the land without labor.". The result,' he says, will be that the price of the loaf will increase, and the position ivi 11 theii.be forcibly impressed on the public. ' For -Iri.flmghza take Woods' Great Pep nermint Qfire. Never fails. Is 6d, 2s 6d.