LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 252, 3 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One hundred acres of the Ruakura Experimental Farm have .been sown to the Ruakura rustresistant oat.

The Wairarapa egg circle is contributing 1,000 dozen eggs towards the 10,000 dozen to be shipped to Vancouver next month. Owing to the increased cost of production the bakers of Eltham have decided to raise the price of bread to 8d cash and 9d booked. The takings at the staging of “ The Country Girl ” bv the New Plymouth Operatic Society last week amounted for one night to £lO6 ios.

Mr H. Munro Wilson will attend the meeting of the Town Board this afternoon for the purpose of submitting details ot the proposed sewerage scheme. A land deal on a fairly substantial scale has recently been made by Messrs Hoadley and Son, of Napier, in the purchase at Motoroa, on the Main Trunk, of some 10,000 acres of land for Mr A. H. Russell, of Hawke’s Bay. It is stated that the purchase price runs into about £70,000 (says the Telegraph).

Notice to members of the Te j Awamutu Young Men's institute ' is given that no further meetings ; will be held this session.

Mary Pikitea, a Maori woman, reputed to be fully 104 years of age, died at Parekino on Saturday. She went through the war with her third husband, wbo was an officer under Major Kemp.

The British Government has allocated to the Rothamstead Experimental Station 2,500 acres of land, and has granted £3,000 towards the new laboratory of the station.

In a prospectus of the newlyformed Melbourne Daylight Pictures Company, it is stated that the profit made by the combine in Australia out of the “ Quo Vadis ” film was £20,000. Notice appears in another column from the District Land Registrar of intention.to bring allotments 195, 196, 197, and 199> parish of Mangapiko, under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, I9oß v

A freak calf has been discovered on Mr C. Blake’s farm at the Waingawa (Wairarapa). This animal has five legs and an extra pair of hoofs. The fifth leg grows from the brisket, and ends close to the ground with two feet. The animal is alive and well.

The attention of swimming enthusiasts is called to the annual meeting of the Te Awamutu swimming and Life Saving Club, which will be held in the Cosmopolitan club room on Tuesday next. As the business is of importance it is hoped that there will be a large attendance. As the result of a petition recently presented to the Te Kuiti Borough Council, urging that the system of rating on unimproved values’ be adopted, a poll was taken on Monday, the figures being : For the proposal 120; against the proposal 34. There were five informal votes. Majority for unimproved rating, 86. In order to meet the growing demands of the increasing traffic, and to cope with the expected rush during the exhibition, a new double platform, 500 ft long and 18ft wide, is to be erected at the Auckland railway station. When the new platform is completed the Department at Auckland will be enabled to deal with seven trains at one time.

A very large quantity, far greater than in any previous year, of phosphorized pollard, was made at the depots of the Department of Agriculture, and was sold to settlers during the past year. As poisoning is being regarded as the most effective means of coping with the rabbit pest, good results should be recorded this year in the work of suppression. At the last meeting of the Pirongia Domain Board, it was decided to accept Mr F. Aley’s tender of £195 15s for supplying material and laying down three asphalt tennis courts. Mr Aley has made a start and the courts will be ready to plav on in December. The gorse is being cleared, and the Board intend to get the ground in order so that the hockey club will be able to play matches the next season. “I would like a wee bit more light,” said McEwen in the course of his exhibition of trickery at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening. McEwen is not the only person who has desired a “ wee bit more light ” at the hall. Entertainments have far too long suffered because of the failure of the lighting system and the installation of reasonable lighting facilities is anxiously awaited by all those who patronise entertainments. '

Messrs Dalgety and Co.’s estimate of the Australasian wool clip for the current season is 2,247,000 bales, an increase of 160,000 over the previous year. Australia contributes 1,718,000, and New Zealand 529,000. The estimatex.predicts increases in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and New Zealand, and decreases in South Australia and Westralia, while Tasmania will equal the last clip. The Herald says that on a rough estimate the value will be over £32,000,000. In the House on Wednesday last Mr J. A. Young, M.P. (Waikato), asked the Minister of Railways whether the Government will make an amendment in the railway tariff schedule by allowing a rebate on the freight paid by local authorities on cast and other pipes used for water works. Replying thereto the Hon. Mr Herries stated that it was intended to revise the tariff at an early date, and the representations made in respect to the freight on pipes used for waterworks will be borne in mind. The court returns at Te Kuiti indicate that the business of the court is increasing very rapidly. For the quarter ending September 30th, plaints to the number of T7l were issued as compared with the corresponding period last year, and 200 processes were served as against 150 for the September quarter of 1912. The amount of £1976 18s 8d was sued for and £1603 19s recovered last quarter, and for the corresponding period last year the amounts were £l3l 17s 4d and £777 Os 4d. During the past quarter the persons apprehended were 86 males and females, while for the corresponding quarter of last year the figures were 46 males. The figures for judgment summonses are 42 as against 26, and cases tried 147 as against 77.