GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1927, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

It is reported that a farmer in the vicinity or! Lake Wanaka this year, threshed a phenomenal yield of Tuscan wheat, namely 101 £ bushels per acre.

The St. Patrick's wheel race at Christchurch on Saturday was won by I‘. O’Shea off scratch in 2min lsec —--the fastest time ever recorded in a handicap event in New Zealand.

The fact that the Government Statistical office js ascertaining from tanners thin year, for the first time, the area of land they have topdressed, is another indication of the importance that is now being attached to this particular farming operation.

It is stated that the wheat crops in South Canterbury are yielding much better than had been anticipated, and that as a result there will be a sufficiency of wheat grown in New Zealand to meet the requirements of the Dominion for the year.

At a sitting of the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, a middle-aged woman was charged with the theft of money. As the case who

Christchurch one, the application of the police, that a remand be granted to Christchurch, was granted.

With a view to promoting a love for sport in the minds of the young, Mr A. Leslie has decided to offer a prize of £1 Is for the best essay on "The Sporting Spirit.” The competition will be open to the secondary and the primary schools of South Canterbury.

Mr P. Hayward is in town just now preparing the Lyceum Theatre for a complete overhaul and renovation, which, when completed, will make it ready for its permanent reopening as a picture house. The building when re-opened will screen Puller-Hayward pictures.

It is intended to open the new North End golf links, at Glen-iti, on April 9. These links embrace 100 acres. Greens have been formed, a building - on the grounds is being converted into a pavilion,' and through the generosity of various well wishers of the Club, the links are being got into first class playing order.

A huge barge, the largest yet built on the \Yaikato river, lias been constructed at Mercer. It is made entirely of iron, its dimensions being bUit. long, says an exchange, and 221 1 wide, its carrying capacity Is estimated at nil) tons ox cargo, or IUU yards of toad metal. Tne barge is lUft longer and oft wider than anything else of its class on the river at the pitsent tune.

‘'\Viieu 1 was up north a man tame three miitis .in the pouring rain lo meet me. As me ram reamed on Jus Jiat on to my book lie told Jus story; "i was a tiekec collector at jrauunigpon ; now I. have ninety cows, but tuat i.'ouirol Board is the trouo ty said tne is.isnop oi London iliseussing New Zealand proaucc in Jimgiand. ju a, iurtlier reierinee lo miller, me Joisliop sain; "Because i\eiv /wauiini produces twenty-tiireo and a-liull per eeiu. 01 me world's butter, she must not ttiniK slie can control tne price of the world’s butter.”-

A Gazette notice gives the dates for the opening and closing of the coming shooting season in the South Canterbury and the Waimate acclimatisation districts respectively. in both districts, the soason will open; on May 2 and close on July 31, both days inclusive. In the South Canterbury district it will be permissible to tail the ioliuwiug imported and native game;—Mallard, grey and spoonbill duck, black teal and black swan. In addition to this, there will he an open season for shooting paradise duck from May 2 to May 8, both days inclusive, in that portion of Mackenzie County which forms part of the South Canterbury acclimatisation district. In the Waimate acclimatisation district, the birds which it will be permissible to shoot will be : —Grey and spoonbill duck and back swan. And there will be an open season for the killing of paradise duck from May 2 to May 3, both days reclusive, in that part of the Waimate district extending from Waitaki bnidge to Kurow. Erom Muy 2 to May 31, both days inclusive, pukeko may also be shot in the said district. Licenses to take or kill imported and native game will be issued at 2s each, and for native game only at Is each. The number of imported game and native game, or native game only, that may be taken or killed by any one person in any one day, shall not exceed twelve mallard duck, six paradise duck, twenty head in all of grey duck, spoonbill duck, black teal and black swan. This applies to the South Canterbury acclimatisation district. In the Waiimate district the number of native game that may be taken in any one day shall not exceed 25 head in all of grey and spoonbill duck, pukeko and black swan, and six paradise duck. Shooting may not begin earlier than one hour before sunrise, and must cease not later than one hour after sunset.

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