LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

1 On page 4 to-diiy appears the | ailway time-table for trains boween Palmcrslon North and Pae:akariki; also tlie weekly market eport, from tlie New Zealand Earners' Co-operative Distributing Company (Wellington). Shearing operations commenced it the Experimental i<arm, \Vertroa, .to-day, on a floek of 2,G00 ihcep. Lambing lias been very ■■ood, especially amongst stud )\ves. Ladies' Night at 1 hi' .Druids lall, Levin, is fixed for Tuesday list October. The United I'ress Association of S T e\v Zealand wisely has decided hat in future, when telegraphng cases of suicide by poison, I Ik; mine of the drug employed must X! omitted. This is in accordance vith the general consensus of opinon on the subject. Tlie Chronicle's unofficial botanist writes: ■■"Tlie railway line in the vicinity of Levin is at present presenting a very line picture to the local population, owing to the extraordinary growth of wild turnips that are in bloom. The writer has seen much of it growing right from Koputaroa to Ohau. This weed is a curse, and it any land should be ploughed near the line, and this turnip gets into the ground there will be trouble, ll is practically an impossibility when once wild turnips have got into ground to get rid of it, as the seed will germinate as soon as the ground is ploughed, even it it has laid dormant for a great many years. All this danger to neighbouring lands would be avoided'if the linemen would pull the flowers <>IV, which work would not be hard lo do, as the yellow blooms are easily distinguished in the burnt I'ern and rubbish that occupy the permanent way. Ardent, rosegrowers who need a simple and effective spray for destroying the Green Ely and other pests so prevalent just now will find Cirengol by far the best. Pan be prepared in a minute, and a shilling tube makes 20 gallons. Obtainable from C. S. Jveedwell,