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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1915, Page 4

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FOR READY REFEREN CE, HINTS TO TRAVELLERS

IN OPEN COUNTRY.

If unknown ground is to be traversed and a long day'a 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 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.

Nover travel without matches. Never take a short cut over swampy or unknown ground.

Always follow sheep or cattle tracks in the direction for which you are making.

if overtaken by fog, siiould you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance ot a clearance of the flying mist, however slight, to discern a known object to guide your path.

Should you misa track, return at once without fail tj the point at which you lost it, and make a .fresh start on the right track.

If compelled to camp out overnight, choose a sheltered spot before darkness sets in, giving yourself sufficient time to complete all possible arrangements for personal comfort under such untoward circumstances in the way of gathering lire material, grass lor bed, which place in rear of a tlax bush. If raining, tio 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 the uight as many suppose.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION JfOll

ACCIDENTS

Jimployers are made responsible for accident bo workmen under certain conditions. Limit of liability wliere.death results, £50, but nothing ill Act to atioct. 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 of employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to bo liable in respect ot an in jury which is proved to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful misconduot of the worker, STAMP DUTIES. ' Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, etc., attachod, 3s.

Appraisement ol Valuation whero the amount does not. exceed £20, Is.; exceed Jt2o, does not exceed £50, &> od, exceed £100, and does not oxcecd £2')o ll}s, £200 and does not exceed £s')o 15s, exceeds £500 20s.

Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £suo but not £1000, 20s; exceeds JUIOOO, 355.

i'.n's. not exceeding £25 (id, exceeds JU2S, and not exceeding itdU Is, every additional £50 or part of £50 Is. 10s.

Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2il; otherwise than oil demand, if running singly, lor any amount not exceeding LSU, is; every additional £50 or part of JJoU, is.; il' drawn in a set, such suaii upon each bill oi tlie set as to make up the same duiy at> H a single bill were drawn for the amount.

Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale: For every £50 or part oi £50 of tiie amount of the consideration for sale /s Ud.

Any instrument whereby any property i.s legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person tor a nominal consideration or where no consideration passes, for wery £50 or part of £50 ui the amount or value ox the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "Xho Property Assessment Act, isas," any iict amending the »ame at tho date when suich instrument takei effect, 10s. Promissory Notes.—Payment on demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: Por every sum not exceeding £25, (jd,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding £50, as. j every additional £50 or part of £50, Its. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, whore such duty does not amount to 'is, the same duties as the original iustr lament} 111 any other case 3s. Land Transfers. —fcteaerally speaking, the same duties ae would have been payable on a conveyance. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium : Where rent does not exceed £od 3a for every additional £50 or part of £50 3s. Por any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any consideration exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from all duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant or ancestor.

Every company (including banks, life 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 ated on for sis or more years; such, (register to be open lor inspection u. payment of a feej register to be pn'bliahed in the New Zealand Government, Gazette annually; notice to be sent to last known addresa of person in whwQ name money stands; and money not claimed within two yeare ot auoh notice is to be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer. ONION CULTUREAilsa Craig, if of a good strain, ib, the best of the large aorta—a shapey, cltan-looking bulb, and keeps longer than the Roccas. Brown Globe, Gulden Globe, James's Keeping, , and Brow u Spanish are all excellent lata keepers. None of the white-skinned vviatios are worth growing, except tor pickling. Pickling-onions are-obtained by sowjng ~NO OOLD IS "NAZOL" PROOF. Sharland's absolutely is the Bailing Powder. Purest, strongest and cheap- ' est. Sharland's is bound to rise. Get ifc from your grocer. Advt. When next you bake scones, rolls or cakee, use SHARLAND 1 S Baking Fovder—and watch tkem rise 1 Costs lesa oibei*—irortk more, Adr)

seed of Wihite Queen or some sort, ahotithe middle of November. The soil should be pow, and made firm; mjw thickly, and do not thin the plants.

WORKERS' DWELLINGS

.Borough Councils are empowered by ihe 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 them suitable for the same purpose, the letting to be in the hands of the Council.

By section 52 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, Councils are further empowered'in regard to workers' dwellings. The section vides that a Council may (1) let land to a worker' for the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worker to enable him to acquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon j (3) sell to a worker .my 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 :s a sufficient fence within the meaning of the fencing Act (5.7).

The occupiers of adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence are liaDle to join in or contribute in equal proportions to the erection of a fence Between such lands, although such fence may not extend along the whole boundary line. But no occupier is liabie to contribute to any fence which ifl not, as far as practicable, continuous throughout its length. THE RULES OP THE *i\)AD. The Rule of the Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you bear to the left you are dure to go right, If you turn to the ripht you go wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different case; To the right it is right wou should steer, On the left Bhould bo left enough of clear space Foi the people ffho wish to walk there. LEGAL TENDER.

Tender of rnonow may legally be made—in the cas eof bronze coine, for any amount not exceeding 1b; in the ca6o of silver coins, not exceeding 40s; in tli ecaso of gold coins for any amount, unlets coined prior to the reign of Queen Victoria (33 and 34 Vic. o. 10, sec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890). Hank notes are now legal tender in New Zealand and are still a first charge on the assets ot ilie bank of issue ("Bank Note Issue Act, 1893 " TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z. MEAN TIME. As compared with— Adelaide ... ••• 10 0 a.m. Aden ... ... ••• 3 31 a.in. Alexandria 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam ... ••• 0 50 a.m. Berlin ... ... ••• 1 23 am. Berne •• ••• 1 0 a in. Bombay ••• 5 21 a.m. Boston 7 4(3 pm. Brindisi 1 42 am. Brisbane 10 30 a tn. Brussels 6 24 *m. LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

When it is desired to form a the ground should be trenched as directed for the vegetable garden any time during 'the autunm. If the plot can be prepared in March, a seadon a'ay be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised «vnd trodden down firmly. I'lie following is a good mixture, it procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21bs; Pestuca tenuifoiia, 41bs; Pestuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia porenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bsj Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This-mixture will -uffiee lor 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. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably lor iawn purposes. If tho ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as e»oon as the machine will act. Some prefer tho scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mower.

IMPOUNDING CATTLE, EIC,

All trespassing cattle may be 5m pounded by the occupier of the land on they are trespassing; but in the case of unfenced land, the ocoupier is not entitled to ciaim any damages except fees for driving, or lor giving notice of the detention uf such cattle, as provided in the Second Schedule. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. tfarley, 2\ to 2J bushels; beans, 2 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1| bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to trans-' plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pigs; o?;rot in drills, Bto 12 lbs; clover, so 17 )bs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 : bs; do. for single-line tencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; liohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs- y linseed, for, flax, 2J bushels; linseed, for seed, 1J bushals; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzol, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pat; rye, 2} to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J busbels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares r winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 £o ,2$ bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 84 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lb»; wheat. 2J to 2$ bushels.