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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1999, 7 February 1907, Page 4

loaves undone. A case was cited in which nsottlor was unable to get a yoply from t'lio Hoard as to an application he had made to take up inpru land, adjoining his section, and other details were given which certainly went to show that someone on the Hoard had acted in a manner which was unreasonable. “AVhy not wiito to the commission?” was the question put to the settler, who replied with scorn—‘ Yes, and the letter will not be sent on to the official interested, he will reply to the Minister (when he thinks lit) giving his explanation,’ and that will bo accepted by the Minister without, quos tion.” This distrust, it avus stated, At as very general, and settlers urged that they should be represented oil the Hoard by inon ay ho better knew thoir requirements, and avlio would take a closer interest in tlieir affairs.

An important question was raised by one settlor, who said tliat it was a mattur about which a great deal of concern was felt by very many. It. lie asked, a bolder of 909 years left liis interest to, say, bis widow or Ids sons or daughters, bad the Land Hoard the power to refuso permission to the beneficiaries to bold' the lease, piovided they carried out its provisions? They know of only one caso, lie said, in which the Hoard bad refused permission, and they were advised legally that the Hoard bad that power. Something, nearly approacliingiug consternation was caused thereby, and the settlers naturnlly asked what was the good of a 990 years lease (which was said to be nearly as good as a freehold), when there was no certainty that it could he devised to.their descendants? The question, it was suggested, might ho answered by the Minister of Lands if liis attention was directed to it.

Nowhere did there appear to be any desire on tho part of the settlors to set themselves up in opposition to tli3 towns, but they did complain that townspeople generally were too much in tho habit of believing, or pretending. or supposing that they were the only ones who know what was best for tho country, and refusing to acknowledge that the dwellers and workers in the country had at least as much right to be considered. “You say wo aro doing well,” said one man. “Well, I’m only in a small way n lyself,. and after about eleven years I am just beginning to see my way clear. Hut when I went on to my section 1 hiul to carry my wife most of tho way on my back ; wo had first of all to live in n tent; even now there is not' a metalled road to cur section, and during tho winter the road is practically impassable, an.l my children aro growing up almost without education. For two years my wife and I never knew what a Sunday was; seven days a week we worked fourteen and sixteen hours a day; and now, though under forty years of age, she is ail old, greyhaired, faded woman, although when 1 married her she v. as as strong a young woman as you could wish to see in the colony, and herself a descendant of pioneers. I myself fee! that I can. no longer do the arduous toil that I did for years, Until the last few months my children had never been to a picnic or a party, we never go to a theatre or take a holiday for more than a day, and the youngsters don’t know what eduea tion is. Whatever prospects there may be for the future (and they are not too groat) have only been rendered possible by years of tho sternest self-denial and perseverance in the iace of vicissitudes and hardships which are painful even to recall. Whatever we possess, or may possess, has been earned many times over. Jlon’t grudge it to us.” That speech was made, not by a large landowner, hut by a lease in perpetuity holder of less than 300 acres of land, and which even now containg some 100 acres of bush. “If,” ho concluded, “the town dwellers only knew they would think and act very differently, Why don’t they come and see lor themselves P Let them go on to tho land.”

CLEAN STRIPPING. Every dairy-farmer knows (says an exchange) that the last-drawn ' milk of a cow is much richer than the other milk; hut why this is so often disputed. This is the reason: A cow’s udder is composed of a solid mass of glandular substance, apparently made up of very small nodules or masses, so as to separate the whole into-eells or divisions. The udder is divided into two parts by a membrane from the front to the back, making two separate and distinct halves. The halves are not divided, and yet the front and back parts are distinct from each other, each quarter being connected with the teat which belongs to it by the small colls or divisions and small pipes or ducts leading from them to the teat. ' The upper part of the udder is made up wholly of fat, the lower part has very little fat in it. Consequently, with this structure, the udder cannot, as many have thought, be a simple reservoir of milk, in which the cream can rise to the top as it accumulates in the udder. The udder, in fact, can hold verv little milk. In the examination of an udder by dissection the combined spaces or ducts in it are found to be insufficient to bold half a pint of milk, but the milk is hold as by a sponge of close texture all through the glands of the udder, and in the small cells, which thus keep the milk as if thousands of small bladders, all holding milk, were gathered into another and much larger bladder. In an examination of this kind all the milk found did not measure a jiint; and this udder was taken from a cow giving several quarts at a milking just before being slaughtered. The milk, therefore, is produced in tlio udder as tho milking proceeds, and the cow may prevent the flow of milk by repressing this action. The giving of tho milk is a voluntary act of tho cow, and as she lets down tho milk flows from these cells into the passage leading into the teats. Necessarily tho milk from tho upper part of tho udder can only come down last; and tho glandular substance in this part of the udder being mostly fat, the milk is made up largely of fat, which is mingled with tho serum of milky fluid that escapes from tho glands by a change of the substance into milk.

An Order-in-Council has been gazetted prohibiting the exportation of firearms, explosives, etc., from New Zealand to the New Hebrides. The Wellington Gas Company has just experienced the most prosperous year oil record and another reduction in the price of gas is foreshadowed. WHY GO HUNGRY. If your stomach is weak and you are suffering from indigestion, don’t sacrifice your health and comfort. Rat all the wholesome food you want. 'I hen take one of Dr. Sheidon’s Digestive Tabulcs after each meal. They digest your food and thus nourish and build you up, while the stomach is recovering its natural tone. For sale by A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist.