DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 14 September 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. (Per' Press Association.) Christchurch, September 13. At tjie combined meeting of the Experimental Farm Committees of the Faj’merV Union and the Canterbury A. and P. Association, it was resolved that it was urgently necessary that steps be taken by the Government to make a provision in the form of an experimental farm in Canterbury ; to devise methods to counteract the very serious loss sustained by Canterbury farmers by reason i of the ravages of tho grass grub, rape and turnip blight, and other destructive pests; the president of the Association and a representative of tho Farmers’ Union to wait on the Minister of Agriculture at Wellington on Friday to urge the establishment |of an experimental farm in Canterbury. I BIG PROPERTY SALE. Auckland, September 131 More activity than usual is now being displayed in the purchase of northern lands. One firm of agents reports that in addition Jo selling Mr G. Riddell’s Mana Estate, comprising • 10,000 acres, in tho Northern Wairoa, to a southern syndicate, they have now disposed of another of Mr. Riddell’s estates, tho Mangarata, covering 1940 acres, in the same district, to; tno same southern buyers. The purchase price for the two properties ran into £75,000. Both properties, (through which the northern railway will run) aro to be subdivided into 200-acre dairy farms, and a township Will bo laid off at Omana, at tho point where the railway will first tap the Northern Wairoa River. Surveyors are already at work laying off the roads. I // -MEAT COMPANY’S LOSS. Wanganui, September 13. Tho Wanganui Freezing Company held its annual meeting to-day. The report showed a loss of £5725 on tho year’s working. This was attributed to tho high price paid for stock and tho low price received for meat. The retiring directors were rc-olectod-DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS. MASTERTGN, September 13. At tho Supreme Court to-day decrees nisi were granted in following cases:—Harris v. Harris, wife’s petition, adultery; Colville v. Colville, wife’s petition, desertion; Warner v. Warner, wife’s petition, desertion; Groves v. Groves, drunkenness, cruelty and desertion. . PETROLEUM NEWS. Christchurch, September 13. The chairman of the Poerua Gold Mining Company states that tho company’s application for 9500 acres .of oil and mineral lease, next to the Kotuku Company’s property, has been granted. Mr. Sydney Fry, the company’s managing director, reports that the area secured is the best in the field.