PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 695, 21 December 1909, Page 8

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

(From Our Sncpial Correspondents.) ■ : ';'- : .^^ ; -r^iLDi.NV:-vJ'':;',' : "; ; --';y'.v An example of the daiiyingwork done in this district^is given by" Messrs. Tlobinson •and■Son, -.of'^lSrnbplton'Road, who milked 69 cows last month for Mb. milk daily on. a 3.99 test. Three, hands did' the milking./ : ; .' . Speaking on the rabbit question at the Kiwitca County.' Council-';meeting; Councillor E.-Shqrt..said'tli'at ho had had a man engaged for six months doing'nothing,-but trapping rabbits, and he-had averaged..between..4oO and 500 : rabbits .per month.' V' ;.! "' r ■ "■■ ' , In the Feuding District Cricket Association's contest for .the. Gutbfie ; Shield, , 'the .'first round; of. \which' has just ''finished, the' positions of the teams are as follow:—Halcombe, 9 joints; RongoteaVeVPhoenii* (Feilding),'.6; : .Colyton, 4;".' Cheltenham and ...Sandbii; : 3;' -Rovers '(FBilding),'2..'"- : ...:./;,.■"./•■'■:;•.,; ■'•:. ; V ' One,of-the.most charming sights in the dis-. trict just".now is ' the Colyton School.: garden. Last ; year the'school-was , first in the FeiMing 'A;- and P.''Society's, competition' for ,to>were, ;and;. this, year, there is'.'even a better, display. Besides' the ..beds':, 'containing choice specimens"of .roses-in 'bloom,': sweet .peas' and' nnmerouS; other varieties, of "choice flowers," aUVa'Ttistically ■arranged' l and ■ displayed, almost every nook and' cranny about tne-.playground is./.utyised"'lor, flowers;' .In addition, soverar.cOrner:'.plot3..6f trees, and.shrtibs, and the'..vegetable", garden', is .an object. lesson 'of itself; /Anyone' fwho'.'saw the 'ground! a ■ few years stiff' clay then—would have said that itr'was'r an. impossibility.''to. achieve .the fine'-results' which, are in" evMenco :n0w.:....', "\