NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 29 January 1929, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

——— NOTES FROM ALL PARTS. THE DOMINION! DAY BY DAY. HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE 11 1 1 / TAUMAROUTS TEA-POINTER. Eight licenses will be issued to> 'shoot deer in the Taumaruuui district during the coming season—. March 28 to April 30. A ballot will bo held to decide the lucky sportsman, who will be entitled to shoot; t\s 4 o heajds oil not less than, ten points. 1 MOSQUITOES IN CHRISTCHURCH. Mosquitoes are unusually prevalent in, Christchurch this season. The matter was referred to at a meeting of tlie Council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society on Wednesday, when a member drew attention to a complaint made concerning the annoyance caused to hospital patients by mosquitoes, said to come from the Acclimatisation Society’s garden adjoining the' Hospitals. The Curator said that the ponds were cleaned out regularly and that the insects were no worse now than usual. “The wet December has been responsible for the pest,” said a member, another adding that mosquitoes had made themselves a nuisance at the Selwyn this season.

RAILWAY INNOVATION. An innovation by the General Manager of Railways which is proving most useful is the periodic calling of departmental heads to conferences in Wellington, says the ‘Post.’ In addition to the departmental heads the conferences, which are held monthly, are attended by the divisional superintendents from both Islands. Usually of a duration of a day or two days, they are having au excellent' effect in keeping departmental heads in touch with what is being done in other branches of the service, and.have made possible fuller co-operation than was feasible before. Mr. H. H. Sterling is vejry pleased with the results which have attended this innovation. GREAT ENTHUSIASM. So great has been -the enthusiasm of the Native people in the East Coast at tlie visits made to the various settlements by tlie Right Rev. F, A. Bennett, Bishop of Ao.tea-roa, that accommodation in the churches in which he preached has been taxed to the utmost. A writer in a Gisborne paper says that everywhere it is evident that 1 his Lordship’s consecration has revived interest among many members of tlie churchy and intensified that of the regular workers. Moreover, the personality of the bishop, combined with bis eloquence, has made a strong appeal to the pakeha audiences he has addressed, and it is the general opinion that no better choice could have been made by the senior officers of the Anglican Church for the post of the first Maori bishop. WELLINGTON FRUIT MARKET.

The Dominion states that a visit tin the city markets in Allen Street reveals that the; busy local fruit season is once more "here. All day long great lorries, piled high with cases, pour in their loads of tomatoes, plums, peaches, apricots, and the new season’s apples, and Just as rapidly the big stores seem to be emptied Iby the buyers. Although certain districts have suffered by the vagaries of the weather, notably a belt of country in Hawke’s Bay, the

season is turning out a good one, and the quality of the fruit offering at the markets is good. Tomatoes cheapening almost daily. Half-cases of well coloured and partly coloured tomatoes could be purchased foi os to 3s 6d. Probably if the weather continues fine, prices will permit of sauce-making next week. PRODUCTIVE GUM tATTOS. A demonstration of what poor gumland will yield is given on the. property of Mr. H. J. Cooper, Blockhouse Bay,, says the “New Zealand Smallholder.” On an area of one acre Mr. Cooper has a crop of Adelaide dwarf tomatoes, and he estimates tee yield will be 3000 181 b crates, or approximately 24 tons to the acre. He put down 4000 plants, some of which are very heavy bearers, one having about 100 good-sized tomatoes, which should give a yield of about 251 b for that plant alone. , Mr. Cooper’s property is in an area lof the poorest of gum land, and it has been in cultivation for a number of years. In the course of conversation, Mr. Cooper said he had this acre planted in strawberries in tee Armistice year, which was also the year of the great epidemic. Th e lat-

ter circumstances caused the price of fruit to soar,, and the strawberries sold up to 2s 6d per box. The return from strawberries grown on Ai?