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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5703, 22 April 1911, Page 2

The Waipawa District High Sohool will re-open od Tuesday morning. Large crops are a feature of the Southland potato position this year, and the quality is said to be splendid. Speoial harvest thanksgiving services will ba held in St. Peter’s Churoh to morrow morning and evening. Messrs Ringland Bros., tailors and outfitters, Napier, call attention to their winter suitings. Mr J. L Sterry, saddler, Waipukurau, advertises full stocks of horse covers, oil olothing, and other winter requisites There is every indication that tha movement to establish co-operative saleyards at Masterton on the old Bite, in opposition to the new Solway yards, will be entirely successful. Burglars entered Scott and Martindale’s offices, in the Wellington Stock Exchange, on Tuesday night, a sum of about £l5O in notes and gold, together with a number of obeques, being stolen. It is thought that the safe from which the money was taken was inadvertently left unlocked.

In anticipation of a fresh in the river, the ohairmau of the Waipawa County Council (Mr A. E. Julli hurried on the completion of the traffic bridge and the structure was opened for traffic yesterday morning. The decking is very slippery and the local bodies interested should tar and sand it, in order to avoid aooideuts.

At Now Plymouth a few days ago there travailed in a railway carriage a group of twelve ladies whose joint ages totalled something like 996 yoars, an avsrage of 83. The eldest was 94, the youngest 76, and all wore hale, hearty and full of life.

It was stated at a meoting of the managers of the Masterton Technical School that when a young man had bad one season at wool-dasaing he thought he had leirnt ail there was to be taught, but, in his opinion, if a man had handled wool for eighty years he could still go on learning. Thos. Matthewsou, a Methven farmer, was oharged at Ashburton, with failing to provide sufficient and adequate accommodation for employees on his farm. The Magistrate made an order fir the ereo tion of buildingß iu accordance with the inspector’s demande, and allowed three months for the execution of the order.

A hearty laugh was raised at the complimentary dinoer to the Hon. D Baddo, at Waimato, South Island. The Minister was explaining that it was not the dullest boys who are put to farming now a-days ; they were put to something else. At this point the Minister was interrupted with the remark by one of the audience, “ No, we make politicians of them.”

The Victorian Government accedes to the King’s express wish that the holiday to celebrate his birthday shall be observed everywhere on the exact date of his birth. This will mean that both Saturday, June 3rd, and Monday, June sth, will be a public holiday in Victoria, as the State law requires that every public holiday shall be celebrated on the Monday following tho day on whioh it falls.

A Feilding settler has been carrying on exhaustive tests both in his district and the Rangitikei of a remedy for the extermination of Californian thistles. He claims that so far the results have been entirely satisfactory, and after a certain period the thistle can be dug out or pulled in a perfectly dead state to the extreme end of the root shoots. Trials are to be held under the supervision of leading farmers. A fortunate escape from a serious aooident took place on Thursday afternoon, at tha small bridge on the main road near the traffic bridge. Mr Hobson was driving a trap when it wont over the end of the bridge into the creak. Fortunately little damage was done. This is a dangerous Bpot, for it will be remembered that Mr Loak met with a serious accident there some time ago and Mr D Moroney blbo came to grief at the same place.

A meeting of the Waipawa Horti cultural Sooiety was held in the Old Library, last night, and was well attended. A proposal to hold a spring show was discussed and it was decided to hold one about the end of November. The following office bearors were elected : —President, Mr W. I. Limbrick; vicepresidents, Dr. Todd, Dr. Ross and Mr A. E. Jull; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr T. Carson ; committee, Dr. Deck, Messrs J.D. Watson, H. F. Norris, H.M. Rathbonc and T. Bloor, ladies committee, Mesdames Watson, Lee, Limbrick, H. M. Rathbone and Misses Todd and Britten. A returned New Zealander, who has been some years in California, is of opinion that a trade could be worked up in Now Zealand wool and frozen meat, but there is apparently some difficulty over the latter. The Aorangi’s trial shipment, for some reason or other, could not be landed, and had to be sent further north. The price of meat was very high in ’Frisco, but the consumers were really in the hands of the oommisßion people, who would fight hard to kpop tho prices up. He had known of instances where tons of fish and fruit had been dumped into the harbour or sent to the manure works rather than swamp the market.