FEILDING NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 8

FEILDING NOTES.

INCREASE IN EXPORT OF STOCK.

IBy Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) -'Feilding, April 5. A Feilding debating society has beeu formed with a strong membership. Messrs. R. Cobbo, F. T. Davis, and J. Butler form the' ' with. Mr. Bernard E. Murphy, M.A., late of Wellington, as secretary.. Mr. L. Bedmoiid," a popular young officer of the local branch of the Bank of Australasia, has been transferred to thV office at Wellington, and will leave Feilding to-morrow.

A young- man named Rasmussen, living at. Halcombe, was the victim of an unfortunate accident on Saturday night. He .was riding on ' horseback along . the Stanway Road, when the horse stumbled on a heap of road metal. The rider was thrown, and had his jaw broken.

Some comparative figures which have been obtained of the export of fat lambs and fat sheep during the busy season of. the year on the railways go" to show the rate at which' the Feilding district is advancing in importance as a stock district, and as a centre for I trade. .in exports. In' the year. .1909 the export by rail of sheep for tho first three months was as follows:—Janu- .!>•- "9,027: February, 32,537; March, 42,162. For tho same period of this year the exports were: . January, 29,000; February, 35,558;' March, 46,496. These figures show the increase for this year over last of 7278 head, the totals being 103,776 for 1909, and 111,054 for 1910. This growing export trado will no doubt weigh with the Minister for Railways when Mr. Millar _is' considering the question of giving increased facilities for the truckBig and carriaac of fat stock."