SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 17, 15 October 1917, Page 4

SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING

The Sale of Liquor Restriction Bill has been passed by the Legislative Council with amendments that have not yet been approved by the House of Representatives. It is understood that the Government will not ask the House to accept all the amendments, so that a conference will become neoessary. The amendment made by the Council in the date of operation of tho Bill will stand The original date was November 1, aud the Council altered it to December 1. The Bill has been before Parliament longer than tha Government expected, and the postponement has been made necessary. '■

I defy any part of the North Island to look better than the South just now, writes "Agricola," in the "Farmers' Union Advocate." It could not possibly do so. And the 6trange part of it is that the nearer one gets to the hills tho beter the country appears. The crops are growing away very fast, aild thero is plenty of feed, The nor'-west winds that have prevailed have hardened up 1 the feed very considerably, and the sheep are doing all the better for it. It is a long time since so few store 6heep wore on offer as is the case at the present time. The reasons undoubtedly are the flush of feed that is everywhere apparent, and the fact that farmers are not anxious to sell so near up to the shearing.