NELSON AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 2

NELSON AFFAIRS

(FROM OCR OWN, CORRESPONDENT ) At ih m N? f LS°N. • 21st January. powdery mildew from his orchard Th P m- evidence, said that the Department S^fe^e=d^£ the suggestion of Magistrate, the ease was adjourned for a fortnight in order to give defendant a chance to cu?\ out the trees. His Worship intimate? that the amount of the penalty mieht be affected by defendant's action * ,1 wo residents were, fined 20s and costs for wasting water, and one, a hHileyel resident, 10s and costs. A motorist, for excessive speeding on the Stoke-Richmond road, was said by one witness to have been going at be::n o^ di 6i 0, miies: *«•*■* *,

Fishermen trawling in Blind Bay haul ea up^ a deep-sea denizen, the appear ance of which is stf ange tothem and the l^Ll", n7 ni- The fish iB 13 inches v. length, dark- grey in colour on the l-ack and white underneath. The eves arc large, and the head is bull-dog sliap! C?' T t *, ST? sU mouth" A Peculiarity about the fish is its hedgehog-like appearance, being covered on the back v,ith spikes about half an inch ' in. le n? th, with smaller ones on the re mainder of the body. When caught the fish was rolled up into a ball shane Mr, Carr of the Ackers' Co opcratfve preyed It. SeCWed tUe SPECime" and

The weather is very hot and dry over the hay, and some of-the country is looking parched. Hopgrowers are "of opinion that if rain does not come soon there will be a tig shortage in the hop crop