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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 November 1915, Page 4

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FOU, READ* UEFEIIENCE. HINTS TO TRAVELLERS V IN OPEN COUNTRY. If unknown ground is to be traversed and a long day's- journey lies before you, be careiul to make an early start ia the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and he certain tj understand them thoroughly, as time thus spent is not lost on a long day's journey. Should you lose your way, and know of any habitation within reach, a mile or two is not lost 'n making enquiries there regarding vour road. - ( Never travel without matches .Never take a short cut over swampy or unknown ground. Always follow sheep or cattle tracks in the direction lor which you are making. If overtaken by fog, snould you know a point guide yourself by it, and ombrace every chance ol a clearance of the flying mist, however slight, to discern a known object to guide your path. Should you miss . track, return at once without fail U the point at which you lost it, and make a iiesh start on tho right track. If compelled to camp out overnight, choose a sheltered spot before darkness sots in, giving yourself sufficient time to complete all possible arrangements for personal comfort under such untoward circumstances in the way of gathering fire material, grass lor bed, which place in rear of a flax bueh. If raining, tie the ends of the flax to tussocks around, so as to from a gentle awning to cover the body and throw the rain off. This, with tussocks to fill up the gaps in the flax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for tho night aa many suppose. WOUKMJiN'B COMPENSATION I , Oil ACCIDENTS. ... Employers are utade responsible for accident to workmen under certain conditions. Limit of liability where death results, JCSO, but nothing in Act to affect employers' ordinary civil liability. Where total or partial incapacity for work results from tho injury, compensation to be a weekly payment not le&s than £1 a week, and total liability ol employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to be liable in respect ol an injury which ifi proved, to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful misconduct of tho worker STAMP DUTIES. Agreement ol Memorandum of Agreement, Is; with letters, etc., attached, 2 8 (3d. Appraisement; ol Valuation where the amount does not-exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £00, 'is Ud, exceed £00, does not exceed £100, os; exceed £100, 15s; exceed £500, 20s. Award, saiiio aa Valuations, excopt exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. JiiJl-; of Jixdiangu.--Un demand, id.; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, for any amount; not exceeding LSO, is; every additional £50 or part ut £50, is.; if drawn in a set, such sU'iu upon each bill ol the set as to make up tho same duty aa n a single bill woro drawn for the amount. *" Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale: For every £50 <.«■ part ol £50 of the amount of tho consideration for safe 7s (id. Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person lor a nominal consideration or whore no consideration passes, for every £50 or part of £50 of the amount or value oi the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment Act, 1885," or any Act amending the -same at tho date when euclvinstruinent takes effect, 7s (3d. Promissory Notes.—Payment on demand, Id. Payable otherwise than on j demand: For every sum not exceeding £25, Gd,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding £50, Is.; every additional £50 or part of £50, Iβ. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where such duty does not amount to 2s lid., the same duties as the original instrument ; in any other caae, 2s (3d. Land Transfers.—benerally speaking, the same duties as would have been payable on a conveyance. Foreclosure order, 10s, Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium : Where rent does not exceed £50 2s (id,; for every additional £50 or pai-t of £50, 2s 6d. For any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any consideration exceeding £100 by way of equality, Mi UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including banks, lii'o insurance offices, and firms acting as agents or private bankers for individuals or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the colony in an account which has not been opor a ted on for six or more years; such (register to be open lor inspection tu payment of a fee; register to be published in the New Zealand .G. overuse it i (Gazette annually; notice to be sent to last known addres* of person in whose name money stands; and money ;>ot claimed within two years of such notice is to be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer. ONION CULTURE. * Ailsa Craig, it of a good strain, >», the best of the large sorts—a shape , v, cltan-looking bulb, and keeps long-r than the lloccas. Brown Globe, G.\lden Globe, James's Keeping, and BroK n Spanish a<re all excellent late keepers None of the white-skinned va/iaties arc worth growing, except for pickling. Pickling-onions are obtained by sowing

seed of White Queen or some sort, about ! .the middle of ftovember. The. soil j should be poor, and made linn; how j thickly, ami do not thin the plants. ■

WORKERS' DWELLINGS

13orough Councils are empowered by Iho Municipal Corporations Act to erect for the occupation of workers employed or resident-in boroughs any buildings suitable for workers' dwellings, or may acquire buildings by purchase or otherwise, and render theni suitable for tho same purpose, the letting to bo in tho hands of the Council. ~ Uy section 52 of the Municipal (-Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, Council's are further empowered in regard to workors' dwellings. Tho section provides that a Council may (1) lot land to a worker for the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advaucu money to a worker to enablo him to acquire land and build a "worker's dwelling thereon; (3) sell to a worker .any separate worker's dwelling. Provision is made for the repayment of advances and the payment of advances and the payment of purchase-money by instalments. THE FENCING ACT. ... ERECTION OF FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule ia a tufficiont fence within tho meaning of tho Fencing Act (e.7). The occupiers of adjoining lands not | divided by a sufficient fence are. liable to join in or contribute in equal pro- j portions to the erection of a fence netween such, lands, although such fence may not extend along the whole boundary line. But no occupier is liabio to contribute to any feuce which ie not, Al far Bβ pixotioable, oontinuoas throughout its length. THE ROLES OF THE k<OAD. The Kule of the Koud is a para-ios quite; For in driving your carriage alonw;, If you bearlo the left you tire jure to go right, e If you turn to the ri>*ht J'o" tf<> wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different cuse; To the right it ia right won should eteer, On the leh should bo loft enough of clear spaco Foi the people. a : lx> wish to walk there. LEGAL TENDER. Tender of monew may legally bo m.ido—in tile cas eof bronze coins, lor any amount not exceeding Is; in the case of silver coins, not oxeoedintf 10s; in tli ecaso of gold coins for <wiy amount, unless coined prior to Uie reign of Queen Victoria (33 and Vic. o. 10, sec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890). Bank notes arc now legal tender ir. New Zealand and are etill a first charge on tho assets ul tlie* b:uik n! ifceuo ("Bank NuU> Issue Act, 18M ' TWELVE O'CLOCK' AT NOON \ 7. MEAN TIME, As compared with — Adelaide 10 0 a.m. Aden 3 3J :».m. Alexandria 2 28 a-m Auisbordaui 0 50 a.m. Berlin 1 23 ■■ in Berne 1 0 ■'* '" Bombay •■• 5 521 n -n Boston ... 7 Hi p in. Brindisi 1 42 '• •"• Brisbane 10 30 a in. Brussels ~. 6 24 •* ui LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a lu.vn, the ground should bo trenched an directed for the vegetable garden any time during tho autumn. If tho plot can be prepared in March, a season nay be gained by sowing thu ;;ra.ss seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised <uu! trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, it procurable: — Crested Dog-tail, 21 bis; Festuca tunui Folia, -libs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tonuifolia poronno, 201 bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, BJlis; Poa Nemoraljs and SemjjeiTJre]j.s 41bs of each. This mixture will 'uffico for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be nad from any seedsman. Homo of . our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes. II the ground i.s of a retentive uatirry, sowing the seods should be deferred til! August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some prefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to' mowing; this will save tho knives ol the mowor. IMPOUNDING CATTLE, EIC. All trespassing cattle mav bo in* pounded by tho occupier of Hit , land on which they are truspaßsing; bill in the case of unfencud land,, the ocuu pier is not entitled to ciaim any damages except fees for driving, or U» giving notice of the detention of v.ich cattle, as provided in tho Second Schedule. tiEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AS ACHE. tJarley, 2J to 2J bushels; beane. 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, IJ bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, I lb; canary, 3 pkgs; cvrot in drills, 8 to 1-2 lbs;"clover, '. m 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 21 Ls; do. for single-lino tencing, to sow one milo. Ii t<) 4 lbs;, kohl rabi % (turiii[yrootcd cabbage), to transplant, 1 Hi; do,, drilled. 4 lbs, linseed, for flax, 2$ buwbels; linseed, for soo-d, 1J bushuls, lucerne? broadcast, 20 lbs; do...drilled, 15 lbs; inustard,_whito. 1-pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 busbelv; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 put; rye, i\ to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to'2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to' 21 bushels; trifojiiwn incarnaturn, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbe; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat. 2i to 2| bushels.

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