Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 6

Town Talk

Fann Value Basis. When giving evidence at the Supreme Court yesterday a witness, an ex peri enced sheep farmer, said that he would value land at £8 10s per ewe per acre. Fixing The Date. “He used to come down every Trotting Club meeting,” replied witness in the Supreme Court yesterday when asked by His Honour Mr Justice Ostlct to state how often his employer hail » i.sitcd the farm he was managing.

“Agricultural Bosh.’’ “This is more like agricultural bosh than agricultural bias,” said Mr W. Adams at. the Wanganui Education Board meeting yesterday when the matter of calling a conference to discuss a report by the Agricultural Instructor was under consideration. Summer Flower Show.

Entries .for the rose section in the Wanganui Horticultuial Society ’s Sum mcr Show to open in the Old Museum Hall at 2.30 on Friday arc stated to be very good. In other sections excellent entries have also been received, but as the weather has held back entries, the committee has decided to extend the time to noon to day.

Cheese Factory Payments. The advance payment for butterfat supplied tu the Rapanui, Turakina and Westmere cheese factories for the month of October was Is a lb. A final distribution on last season’s supply is I cing made on November 20, to the West mere factory suppliers of five eighths of a penny per lb. making a tota] for the season of .Is 5.7-8 d per lb. butterfat. Tit for Tat. “ If the members do. not pay attention to the order paper I must call them to order for smoking,’’ said the chairman of the Education Board (Mr W. A. Collins) at the meeting yesterday when there was a hum of conversation round the board table. Mr J. K. Hornblow: I 'm sorry, sir. I did not hear what you said. Would you like a cigarette? (Laughter). • ‘ More or Less. ’ ’

“And you could say that in the whole of the Rangitikei district every farm has Californian thistle?” asked a solicitor when a farmer was giving evidence in the Supreme Court yesterday.

“More or less,was the answer he gave. He did not agree with the next suggestion from the solicitor that the farmers “had to accept it and do their best.” He explained later that if the thistle were mowed at the proper time they could be killed, and that such treatment was the recognised remedy. Whenuakura School.

A petition from residents in the Whenuakura district was presented to ♦h- 1 Wanganui Education Board yester day asking that the school building there be rebuilt. During discussion on the matter the chairman (Mr W. A. Collins) expressed the opinion that this was a case where free transport to Palea might be considered. The road was good. Mr E. F. Hemingway felt sure the Whontiakuia people would be oppos'd to that course. He undertook

io report on their opinion as soon as possible. A report by the architect that the woil-. be placet! second on the list of urgency was adopted. Little Demand.

Evidence of the interest taken in sales of dairy stock is furnished by the fact that parked outside the Wanganui sale yard yesterday were 63 motor cars. Under ordinary circumstances this would have been an excellent indication that stock were in strong demand. On this occasion, however, the demand was very light and many pens were passed in, the vendors’ reserve prices not being obtained. One farmer who had come from Taranaki to attend the sale attributed the lack of acceptable prices to the fact that there was a shortage, of grass. This, he said, was evident in the condition of the offering. Nukumaru Battles Twice.

Two battles of Nukumaru have gone down into history—one during the Maori war, the other of more recent date, waged between school committee and Education Board. At least that was suggested at the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board yesterday by Mr J. K. Hornblow when a curt in timat’on from Nukumaru stated that the committee was unable to pay a pronised contribution of £2O towards improvement to the school site last year ’llie writer trusted that he had made the position clear. Mr Hornblow: Another battle of Nukumaru. There was one once before, you know. They put up a great fight there in 1860. Here they arc at it again. Mr A. 8. Coleman (to the, chairman): Do you over go up that way? Mr Hornblow: Life is far too precious. There is a battle on. (La u gh I: c r.)