LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1789, 31 July 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Of thirteen bankruptcies notified in last week’s issue of the 'New Zealand, Gazette, only four were in the North Island.

As showing the value of game sanctuaries, a local sportsman one day this week counted over 100 duck on the Serpentine Lake near Ohaupo.

“.Superlphosphate does not make the land acid aJs a lot of people seem to (think. That is all tripe.”—Mr W. J. McCullough at the lecture on topdressing at Pahiatuja. Mr A. J. IH. Oakshott, late superintendent of Postal Telegraph, Bristol, and his daughter, have removed from Te Rore after a residence there for several years, and taken up residence in Auckland.

“If you sow cowgrass on an old grass paddock, without manure, you will not get cowgrass to come, but sow it with manure and you will,” was a point made by Mr W. J. McCullough at a lecture on top-dresising at Pahiatua a few days ago.

A “tip” to farmers was given by Mr W. J. McCullough, Government instructor in agriculture during an address at Pahiatua a few days ago. “If any of you are racing men,” the instructor remarked, “take a £1 ticket in phosphatic manure and you will get a £6 dividend. It ils the surest thing you ever bet on for there are no nonstarters.”

A fatal accident occurred at Arapuni last Wednesday morning. An Austrian, employed as a concrete .mixer, was working with /his mate' on the spillway waiting with an empty truck for the locomotive. He decided, to “coast down,” as the engine did not appear, and on the bend he ran into the returning locomotive. He sustained injuries to his head which proved fatal. " :

The meeting convened for last even, ing in connection with the Young Men’s Institute did not eventuate, only Messrs D. Bockett, C. A. Reilly, W. McGivern and A,., C. Cruickshank being present at the appointed time. Messrs C. G. Downes and R. J. Fox arrived a few minutes ‘Utter. Of the rest of the thirteen old members notified his Wor. ship the Mayor was indisposed, Mr J. Oliphant was attending a social func. tion at Hamilton and Mr S. A. Etnpson was on a business trip to Hamilton.

According to the Pacific Dairy Review, San Francisco, of last month, reports of manufacturers of condensed or evaporated milk show total stocks on Ist April amounting to .115,180,000 lbs. Summaries of firms reporting both years show the 'stocks on Ist April this year to have been 10 per cent heavier than in 1925. A look back over previous years shows that the March reduction in the total carry-; over was slightly'less than the five-year average, although it is of interest to note that during two of these years stocks on Ist April were heavier than on Ist March.

Dairymen all over this district have noted with a considerable degree of in. terest the intention of Mr W. Veitch, M.tP. for Wanganui, to deliver a public tutoress in Te Awamutu on Monday afternoon next, on the subject of Dairy Produce Control. Mr Veitch is a noted speaker, and that he has his subject well prepared is evident from the prominent part he has taken in the opposition to the control proposal. Just what he hopes to gain by addressing farmers at this stage is not known .to ■us. but doubtless he will interest his hearers. The address should be listened to with interet by dairymen irrespective of their particular leanings. In reply to a question by Mr J. R. Hamilton (Awarua) the 'Minister of Finance (Hon. W. D. Stewart) stated in the House of Representatives that owing to the demands on the funds of the' State Advances Department it wa:s not possible at present 'to widen the scope of its lending operations and. make advances generally on behalf of deceased persons’ e'states which were •being administered by the Public Trustee. In special cases, ihowever, where it was proved to the' satisfaction of the Advances Department that a difficulty 'existed and the Public Trustee was not in a position .to make an advance for the .repayment of a loan in respect of a deceased person's estate from the Common Fund, the Advances Superintendent would be prepared, to consider any applications made to him.

A gloom was cast over the Puahue and Hairini districts when it became known on Thursday 'that Mr A. H. Parish’s daughter Lorna had succumbed, for she was an exceedingly popular girl, who despite her affliction caused some years ago by infantile paralysis. As a football enthusiast, particularly as a supporter of the Puahue Club (in which two brothers play prominently) she was noted far and wide, and in 'the last three years she has seldom missed a match. As a mark of sympathy with the bereaved parents and family, the Puahue Club arranged for the cancellation of their match with Te Kawa, set down for this afternoon, while the United Club (for which another brother plays) also arranged for the postponement of thengame. The funeral of little Lorna took place to-day, and needless to say, the large assembly at the graveside included many footballers. The sorrowing family have been (he recipients of many expresions of sincere sympathy.

“You don’t build a dairyman on a university education,’ remarked Mr F W. Horne, at a meeting of the Hawera Chamber of 'Comfmerce 'last week. He went on to emphasise t)he value of dairy laboratories and schools as compared with an agricultural college.

;Mr H. W. Hesse, 8.A., B.Sc.', South Auckland district agricultural instructor to schools, paid his "last official visit to the Cambridge district last week (sayls the Independent) having been appointed to a similar position in the Wellington district. IMr W. Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Produce Export Control Board, will leave for London on 11th August, via San Francisco. At a special meeting of the Board it was decided that the chairman .should go to London to confer with the London agency regarding details, and, to inaugurate the marketing policy of the Board. Replying to a question in Parliament by Mr T. E. Y. Seddon (Westland) the Prime Minister stated , on Wednesday that the State Forest Service had for some time been making investigations with respect to.the important question of the utilisation of sawdust and waste timber fori the manufacture of wood pulp, but as these investigations were not yet completed it was at present premature to make any statement in that regard.