CHRISTCHURCH NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11615, 20 July 1905, Page 7

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS.

Petition Against Removal cf Addington Salo Yards

A Mild Winter.

(Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 20. A movement being on foot to close the Addington sale yards, and to remove the cattle market to Sockburn, away from the Christchurch City altogether, a large number of signatures of farmers, butchers, auctioneers, graziers, and dealers, has been attached to a petition to the chairman of directors of the Canterbury Sale Yards Company, asking that every effort be made to continue the business on the present *ite. The petition points out that th» present site is the most convenient for all concerned, and asks the company to take immediate steps to open, up a direct road to the Soekburn abattoir. I Indicative of the mildness of the season, I many spring flowers are blooming in I Christchurch. Geranium and chryeantheL mum are blooming side by side at Sum- > B ncr, and even a few rosss are out.l GenerB a|ly farm work is well forward.