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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 21

A North Otago farmer, whoso road fine hedge- has been affected by load construction operations recently undertaken by the Public Works Department, has reason to regret that hb injudiciously, complained that excavations made by the Department had affected his hedge to a degree demanding compensation (states the “Times”). It appears t.Lftt the road work coheerhed entailed the cutting away of a bank as far buck as the farm boundary, and in one place a few feet further necessitating the breaking of the hedge line. Naturally the land-, owner murmured. His niurmtirj increased to indignant cpinplnlnta until the Department was moved to bring >n surveyors to assess the farm's actual loss. The survey completed, the flow thoroughly ' crestfallen complainant could nave bitten off his own tongue. The new survey showed that he hfid for years enjoyed possession of Government land for nothing. Tho error found to exist in the original euvvev varied from one Or two feet in some nlnees to as much as 40ft. in others. "Unless bo Better than silence, bo silent. ’

An American newspaper (quoted by the “Tiinaru Herald’) says that New Zealand is planning to ship to the united States 100,000 deer in cold Storage annually. The “message” goes on to allege'that: "New Zealand will lie able to supply the United States with 100.000 deer annually as soon as shipping facilities have been perfected, it is announced here by Government officials interested in the export of venison. Deer herds have increased so rapidly that the animals have become a. menace, and measures have been taken to reduce their number by slaughter for market purposes. It is planned to ship the venison in refrigeration to San Francisco. Government estimates place the number of deer in this country at approximately 500,000. ThcSe are of the red and ‘fallow variety, and it has been calculated they are increasing at the rate of 150,000 a year. However, the ..umber at the present time is not being reduced by more than 50,000 a year. Most of the venison will bo sent to the United States, but England will take several thousand quarters every few months.”