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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5709, 6 May 1911, Page 2

a report of the meeting of the Waipawft Borough Oounoil will be found on the first and fourth pages. A stock sale will be held at HampdeD, on Saturday, 13th IOBt. The Railway Department publish particulars regarding excursion fares for the Hastings Races.

Mr W. H. Rathbone requests us to mention that the names of the Mayor and Or MoGreevy were omitted in our report of the Works Committee whioh he propoced to be set up by the Borough Oounoil

Ti e Greymouth correspondent of the Ohristohuroh Dress telegraphs that tho Parliamentary election campaign for Westland has already oommonoud, and Messrs T. E. Y. Beddon and H L Michel are hard at work oanvarsing The contest promises to be one of the longest and most bitter on record. At a special meeting of the Hastings Borough Council the following resolution was rassed : - “That the services ot Mr Enooh Hallett, as Road Overseer for the Borough of Hastings, and in all other capacities be dispensed with as from May 5, 1911, ai d that his salary be paid to him up to January 16, 1912, in lieu of notioe.”

The proposal to grant £SO towards oedobrating Coronation Day did not ap pual very strongly to borough councillors, on Thursday night. Oue spanker said a cable of congratulation to the King would fill the bill, while another thought it would be preferable to spend the amount on “ suookor ” instead of on firew jrks.

The Mayor of Dannevirke told the Borough Oounoil at its last meeting, that during the last year £1620 had been paid as accumulated debt for sinking funds, whioh had been negleoted to be paid for the lust six years. There must be something rotten in the State of Dannevirke when such a condition of affairs is allowed to exist. The majestic cruiser Powerful, whioh has been the flagship on the Australian station for over five years, is to end her days as a hulk at Devonport. Thirteen years ago sho was valued at £705,000, but to-day she is obsolete. The Powerful is a Bister ship of the famous Terrible, the guus of whioh played suoh au iin portaut part in the South African war. Most enoouraging signs have been given ot the existence of rioh deposits of petroleum at Weber, near Dannevirke. Expert drillers are to thoroughly test the area marked off iu the interests of tho Biitish capitalists who have the matter in hand The group is also associated with the boring about to be undertaken at Kotuku, near Greymouth. It is rather a difficult matter to report the proceedings of the Borough Counoil, for the members usually speak in a most confidential manner, as though they were afraid of the sound of their own voices. But wheu these conditions are accentuated, as they were at last meeting by a pianist goi »g fortissimo iu the theatre, the lot of tho reporters wus not a happy one.

Potato crops are turning out oxcep tionally well in Souihhnd. The News states that the yield, taken altogether, must be quite a third better than last year, and in addition there is a much larger area than usual uoder potatoes. In the Orepuki distriot alone it is estimated there are 6000 tons of potatoes to go on the market, whioh iB equal to the total shipments from Bluff for last season. A remarkable feature of the crop this year, on heavy land, is the small quantity of small tubers oompared with former years, and, what is of most importance, an entire absence from all forms of disease.

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A rival to the Standard Oil Company’s specialties is shortly to come into the New Zeiland market, aud from America, the home of the Standard Company The steamer John Hardie, whioh left Philadelphia for Freemantle and New Zealand ou 12th March, is bringing a full ctrgo of kerosene in case for distri butiou in the four centres of New Zealand, where new, large stores have boon erected for its reception. The oil is being shipped by the “Shell” Transport Co., or, as it is known in Auntralasip, the British Imperial Oil Company, the avowed rival to the Standard Company About the same time as tho John Hardie a cargo of motor spirit and benzine from the Shell Company’s works in Sumatra is expected to arrive in Now Zealand The Shell Company’s oil well interosts are distributed all over the world—the United States, Egypt, Europe, Russia and the Dutoh East Indies. There is an abundant simply to draw upon. It is likely that Dunedin will be the first port of oall in New Zealand for the John Hardie.

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