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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15864, 8 December 1923, Page 13 (Supplement)

A correspondent writes: —"Yes, verily, we are a peculiar people, as Dora Wilcox puts it. We see on the older settled grazing country clumps of unfenced manuka retained for shelter. In lime this naturally grows old and dies out, or is used for firewood. Theni or before a plantation is planted and fenced, but it does not seem to -strike us that if the original clump of manuka had been fenced that our own native trees would have sprung up amidst the manuka and formed an effecb.ve .shelter belt, so long as kept fenced. The stock, having access to manuka clurnp, destroyed any young forest trees which had germinated from seeds dropped by birds and necessitated the planting of an exotic plantation. Moreover, the manuka seed was carried on the sheep backs from underneath the trees and distributed where it was a nuisance, and had to be removed. A lot of time and expense could be saver! by working with Nature, not against her."

The President of the United States has many calls upon his purse. The four State receptions, which take place every season, cost a total of £'2500. The President's wife must have gar-den-parties, etc; holidays are a costly business, and charities make a large hole in the Presidential exchequer. Few United States' Presidents ever retire with a "nest egg."