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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 December 1915, Page 4

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-■ -» . FOR READY REFERENCE. HINTS TO TRAVELLERS IN OPEN COUNTRY. if unknown ground is to'be traversed and a long day's journey lies before you, be careful to make an early start in the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and be certain to understand them thoroughly, as timo 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 maiking 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 tile direction for which you are making. if overtaken by fog, should you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace 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 tj the point at which you lost it, and make a fresh start on the right track. If oompelled to oamp out overnight, choose a sheltered spot before darkness Bets 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 ior bed, which place in rear of a flax bush. If raining, tie the ends of the flax to tussocks around, so as to-from a gentle awning to cover the body and throw tie rain off. This, with tussocks to fill up + <he gaps in tie flax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR -ACCIDENTS. Employers are made responsible for accident to workmon under oertain conditions. Limit of liability where death results, £50, but nothing in Act to affect employers' ordinary civil liability. Where total or partial incapacity for work results from the injury, compensation to be a weekly payment not less than £1 a week, and total liability ot employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to be liable in respeot of an injury which is proved to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful misconduct of the worker, STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is; with letters, etc., attached, 2s 6d. Appraisement ot Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £50, 2s 6d, exceed £50, does not exceed £100, os; exceed £100,15s; exceed £500, 20s. Award, same as Valuations, except exceods £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. Hills of Exchange.—On demand, id.; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, for any amount not exceeding £50, Is; every additional £50 or part of £50, Is.; if drawn in a set, such sum upon each bill of the set as to make up the same duty as it a single bill were drawn for the amount.

Conveyance.—"Conveyance on sale: For every £50 or part of £50 of the amount of the consideration for salo. 7s 6d.

Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person tor a nominal consideration or where no consideration passes, for every £50 or part of £50 of the amount or value ot the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment Aot, 1885," W any Act amending the «ame at the date when au<ih instrument takes, effect, 7& 6d. Promissory Notee.—Jfayment on demand, Id. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exceeding £25, 6d,; exceeding £25 and noc exceeding £50, Is. j every additional £50 or part of £60, Ib. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where such duty does not amount to 2s t)d., the same duties aa the original instro>ment; in any other case, tin 6d, Land Transfers.—Generally speaking, the same duties aa would have been payable on a conveyance. Foreclosure order, 10b,

Lease, or Agreement to Lease, -without any consideration by way of premium : "Where rent does not exoeed £50 3a 6d,; for every additional £60 or part of £50, 2a 6d. Far any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any oonaidaration exceeding £100 by way of equality, ltM UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including bulks, life insurance offioes, and hrmfl acting aa agents or private bankers for individuals or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the oolony in an account,which has not bean oper ated on for six or more years} auoh (register to he open lor inspection ci. payment of a fee; register to 'be published in the New Zealand Government, Gazette annually; notice to be Bent to laat known address of person in whose name money atande \ and money not claimed within two year® of such notice is to be paid over to tii® Colonial Treasurer. ONION CULTURE. Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, is, the best of the large aorta—a ahape'ji cU-an-looking hulb, and keep* than the Rocoas. Brown Globe, Gulden Globe, James's Keeping, and Brosui Spanish are all excellent lata keepers None of the white*kinned wlfitioa *re worth growing, exoept for plokling. Pickling-onione are obtained by sowing