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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1210, 25 February 1922, Page 2

The value of white lupin as a manure is evidenced by the remarkable results following its use in the experimental plot at the Whakatane District High Schol. The white lupins, a plant of the nitrogen-producing legume family, were allowed to grow 3ft high before they were cropped and the prolific green stuff dug into the soil where it rots quickly. Maize plants planted last October in this manure dug in two years ago, in the old sandy loam soil, have grown to at least 10ft high, with a strong stalk 3in in diameter. Other plants nearby without the lupin manure are 2ft shorter and neither so sturdy nor so fine in colour. Grimm lucerne, a plant with the crown well below the sur-

face of the soil and thus protected from grazing animals, is also growing well in this interesting garden plot. There will be no rickshaws in Scarborough next season. It was) proposed to start a service of these light two-wheeled vehicles which are so familiar a feature of the streets in the Far East. They were to be drawn by men of colour, but the Watch Committee have refused their permission on the ground that they were not satisfied as to what would become of the men at the end of the season.