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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8247, 21 February 1905, Page 2

DAIL? NOTES. •• : . '" We heard a great stock. deal last year about the determination of the big runholders to save their ewe lambs, and many of them are taking this course. No doubt in time they will succeed in stemming the diminution of the colony's flocks. There is another direction, however, in which 'we may look for a possible solution of the difficulty arising out of over-exportation of frozen meat. At the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Christchurch Meat Company last week, Mr Gilbert Anderson suggested is a means of replenishing the colony's flocks that it might be possible to import ; sheep from Australia. Although this course is hardly practicable now, it migkt pay handsomely in the near future At present breeding ewes in Australia are selling at prices which, plus the cost of carriage to New Zealand and other charges, represent the values of breeding ewes in Christchurch. But owing to the rapidity with which the Australian flocks are recuperating from the effects of the drought, prices in Sydney and Melbourne are falling. If they continue to fall it may yet be possible to replenish the flocks of this country from "the other side." : ■.....•;■ The juvenile patrons the concert of. the municipal /band dtstubbkb. concerts are again •o&ubing trouble. 'fijad^g that they are no longer allowed- >t6 malte themselves a nuisance | a victoria Square, the more turbulent "of them apparently migrate to Sydenham Park, where the aUthor&es su® j ess strict. The result is that people who attend the concerts at Sydenhjiii Park