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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 8

A Gisborne motroist has been fined for towing a motor vehicle, from which three tyres were missing, over a stretch of bitumen highway, the case being brought as a warning to others of the damaging nature of such actions.

“The mortgage is the little brother of the transfer.” This neat epigram was made by the Minister of Native Affairs, Sir Apirana Ngata, when addressing Maoris at Ranana recently in connection with land matters.

The estimated population of the Dominion at September 39, 1929, was 1,474,365. The Maoris number 65,810. All half-castes are classed as Maoris. During the month of October 800 men were employed on the construction of the Main Trunk railway. On the Gisborne railway the number was 1174. On road works in the Taranaki road district 551 men were employed.

A Napier motorist who has returned from a visit to Taupo states that the sight of the broom in flower in the various spots around the township was worth going a long way to see. “It has spread all over the countryside, he said, "and in future I can see tourists going to Taupo to see the broom just as in England people go to Bushy Park to see the chestnuts or to Kcw Gardens to see the bluebells."’

The agricultural returns for England and Wales for 1929 show tliat wheat occupied 1,330,000 acres, barley 1,122,000 acres, and oats 1,852,000 acres, potatoes 518,000 acres, turnips and swedes 699,100 acres, mangolds 299,190 acres, sugar beet 229,000 acres and beans 143,900 acres. The total acreage under crops and grass was 25,437,000 acres of which 9,948,000 acres was arable land, and 15,489,000 acres grass land. Cattle totalled 5,956,000 of which 2,053,600 were dairy cows in milk, 293,000 cows in calf, and 364,500 heifers in calf. Sheep totalled 16,103,400 and pigs 2,304,500, while horses were 999,100, Hops occupied 23,900 acres, of which 14,790 were in Kent County.

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