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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 117, 12 May 1932, Page 5

Street Improvement Work The borough staff is at present engaged on metalling work in Wallace Road and Church Lane, these sections of the borough highways having suffered damage during recent heavy downpours. Were grading opeiations carried out complementary to these improvement efforts, excellent results would obtain. Husbands’ Gifts to Wives Members of a Canterbury local body which receives some revenue when huts on the reserve it controls are sold have been wondering what is behind two or three instances in which husbands have transferred their huts to their wives. No money has passed and consequently the local body did not get its percentage of the purchase money. Members recently asked what was the explanation but the chairman could answer only by quoting the application for tiansiei on which the reason for the gift was given as: “Natural love and affection.” Others ventured the opinion that in these times of uncertainty some husbands were making suie that if the worst came to the worst they still would have a hut to live in. Nut and Bean Farming Believing that the Government s small farm scheme for unemployment relief can be turned to account for growing such unusual crops as peanuts and haricot and Lima beans, a returned soldier resident of Avondale Mr C. H. Speakman, has sent in an application for a 10-acre allotment and hopes to obtain one in due course. Mr Speakman has raised very fine specimens of the crop mentioned 'upon a small section in the Waterview district, and has also successfully grown a Brazilian sweet potato that is almost unknown in New Zealand. He believes that there is a good market for locally-grown peanuts and the two varieties of beans, supplies of which are now imported, and that given a market these crops should make the small farm scheme available, to men who, like himself, are unfit for heavy labour.