THE WEATHER

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 6

THE WEATHER

• FORECAST AND SUMMARY AT 4 P.M. YESTERDAY. I'resent indications arc for increasing northerly winds, especially in nnd southward of Cook Strait. Expect increasing cloudiness generally and rain following shortly on the Went Coast and in southern districts. Barometer falling everywhere for a westerly disturbance, due to pass soon in the s< uth. Easterly breezes have prevailed in the north, but northerlies and westerlies elsewhere. The weather has been fine, mild and hazy, and atmospheric pleasure has decreased in the south. D. 0. BATES. Meteorological Office, Wellington, April 1. 1921.

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. “Subscriber.” —Yes, providing the facts aro as set out in your letter. Par. b sec. 3 of the Act provides flint any bona-fide farmer, whose ordinary farming operations include the raising and fattening of stock, may slaughter on his farm up to one beast and five head of other stock for barter or sale, providing his farm is not situated inside a-borough or town district, or within three miles of the nearest boundary thereof. In the case cited by you. where two partners own and farm Iwo separate farms, the proscribed number of stock may be slaughtered in respect of each property, provided the slaughtering actually takes places on , ’each property.