Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 31 March 1910, Page 499

Interprovincial

According to the Wairarapa Daily Times, it is understood that an association is being formed in Masterton to take up land under the provisions of the Land Settlement Finance Act, which came into operation on January 1. It is the intention of the association to purchase the fine estate of McGregor Bros., at Manaia,. consisting of 900 acres, and to utilise the land for dairying purposes. Kawau Island, which is one of the best known of the holiday resorts in the vicinity of Auckland, is to be shortly cut up by the present owner (Mr. A. J. F. Farmer) into suitable lots, both for those who want a small area for a summer residence and also for those who want to engage in farming. The island, which was formerly the home of Sir George Grey, is a perfect paradise in miniature, abounding in lofty hills, deep bays, splendid beaches, with good fishing and shooting, and, in fact, everything that the heart could desire. ; ; ‘Kingdom of Kerry,’ Wellington, writes; — ‘ Faultfinding as a rule is not a very pleasant task, but there are occasions when such cannot be avoided. At our Irish national sports held in the Basin Reserve on Saturday last, we were treated to one of those occasional samples of Cockney-cum-Donnybrook stage Irish jiggers, who imagined that he was giving a grand display by caricaturing an Irishman in a flaming red vest, bright green stockings, battered caubeen, and a bit of a stick, etc. It is much to be regretted that those in charge had not sufficient backbone to prevent it.’ That statistics need not . always be dull is amply demonstrated in the annual report of the Chamber; of Commerce, which teems with figures of a most interesting kind (says the Dominion). Of the £18,953,661 worth of exports from New Zealand for the year ended September 30 last no less a sum than £15,268,174 was furnished by the products of the soil (wool, skins, meat, butter, cheese, tallow, gum, hemp, timber, and grain). The meat exported from the North Island weighed 1.526,044 cwt, and from the South Island 979,400 cwt; the wool export amounted to : 115,872,0971bs from this island, and 71,747,084 from the South Island; more than twice as much cheese was produced in this island than in the South (241,410 cwt to 114,260 cwt) and over ten times as much butter.