SUPPLY OF GRASS SEED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 133, 28 February 1908, Page 9

SUPPLY OF GRASS SEED.

(DT TULECRArrt—press association.) : ' Auckland, February 2". , The. recent bushi fires havo. given a great, stimulus •to the trade ill grass seed, and local merchants are; hard put to it to secure sufficient seed to fill orders. Indeed, in regard to itwo grasses, dant(ionia and-; lotus' major/seed is quite unprocurable. In many cases'orders have been duplicated. In others farmers who did not intend to sow at all have been compelled t<> pasture or ' re-pas-' turo large areas. Settlors''are availing themselves very largely, of tho 'Premier's genorous offer'of seed to farmers whose sections havo suffered by. the "'ravages, of : th'd flames. This will practically depleto the! market of all the potmhir lines. OTAKI AGAIN. AFFECTED. • (BV TELEGItAriI-—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT*); - ' ■v_ [ " Otakl, February 27: . '' The fij'es in this' district'; have again: bfeoiv fanned into llarae, arid yesterday afternoon threatened several properties at Wnikanao. Some beautiful 'Native bush,' 1 flax, and fencing .were destroyed. At/Reikoraiigi tho sawmill ' narrowly escapcd ; destruction,' and .it' was only -bjr the supremo efforts' of the settlers ' that fires in the sawdust'heaps were' extinguished. • Smoke is still plentiful,', and a copious supply of rain is needed. '