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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18347, 5 June 1931, Page 6

Counsel told llio Registrar in Divorce, at Sydney last week, lie understood that the estate of Sydney John Field, grazier and master butcher, was worth £1,000.1)00. Mrs Ivy Gladys Field, in an allldavit in support of an application for £IOO a week alimony, pending the hearing of the divorce suit, said, referring io her husband's liberality, that he had bought her fur coals at £<’>oo each, and model frocks at 75 guineas. Slu; spent £4OO each race meeting with one firm alone, and paid £8 8s for shoes. The inquiry was adjourned.' “The only tiling to get the fanners

out is to have a dance, where there are girls, and the men have to come to look after lliem," said Mr It. G. Bishop during a discussion of means of increasing interest in the Farmers’ Union at a meeting of the. North Canterbury cxeculivc. The president, Mr Colin Mclntosh, said that their chief obstacle was the lack of knowledge among farmers of what the union had done and was doing for them.