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New Zealand Tablet, 3 February 1916, Page 29

Mr. W. H. Skinner, Commissioner for Crown Lands for Hawke's Bay, who has just returned from an inspection of the Gisborne, Wairoa, and Waikura districts, stated. to a Herald reporter. that he was very much impressed with the appearance of the country and the stock, and also with the quantity of feed, which appeared abundant everywhere. The principle of co-operation has been put to good use by New Zealand farmers this year (says the Dominion). When a shortage of shearers threatened some districts the farmers overcame the difficulty by cooperating, and the same was done in certain localities respecting the harvest. In both instances the results are said to have been excellent. A rather unusual offer was made to the/secretary of the . Wanganui Charitable Aid and Hospital Board last week. A farmer living in the country offered to take, free of charge, a child of a married man who was willing to go to the front, but was prevented by family ties. The farmer offered to maintain the child at his home for the period of the war, or until the father was able to take up his home duties again. Feilding is one of the most substantial and prosperous towns on the coast ,the magnificent country surrounding it being a great producer of wool and mutton, apart altagether from butter and other products (says the Wano-anui Chronicle). As a stock centre it is unsurpassed, and, in order to give some idea of the tremendous value of exports, it may be stated, that during the ; five week ended January 22 about 30,900 sheep and 2400 bales of wool were trucked away, the approximate value of wool and mutton being over > £BO,OOO. . /