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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1916, Page 4

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HOlt 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 ia 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. Never 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,-should you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance of 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 winch you lost it, and make a fresh start oil tii© 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 unto l ward circumstances in the way of gathering fire material, grass lor 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 gontle awning to cover the body and throw the rain off. This, with tussocks to fill up +ihe gaps in the flax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS. 5

limployers are tziade responsible tor accident to workmen under certain 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 tiian £1 a week, and total liability of employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to be liable in respect ol an injury which is proved to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful misconduct*® the worker.

STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is 3(1 with letters, etc., attached, 3s. Appraisement o1 Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £50, lis (id, exceed £100, and does not exceed £2')o 10s, £200 and does not exceed £600 15s, exceeds £500 20s.

Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. Ji'.n's. not exceeding £25 6d., exceeds £25, and not exceeding £50 Is, evex-y additional £50 or part of £50 Is. 10s. Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2d ; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, for any amount not exceeding USO, Is; every additional £50 or part of £50, Is.; if drawn in a set, sucii sum upon each bill of the set as to make up the same duty as U a single bill were drawn for the amount. Conveyance —Conveyance on sale : I'or every £50 or part oi £50 of tlio amount ot' the consideration for sale 7s (id. Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person lor a nominal consideration or where 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 'Vet, 1885/' or any Act amending the 'auia at the date when such instrument takes, etfect, 10s.

iVomissory .Notes.—l'ayinent on demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: i'cu' every sum not exceeding £20, (id,; exceeding £26 and not exceeding £50, is.; every additional £60 or part of £50, Ib. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where such duty does not amount to 'is, the same duties as the original instrument; in any other case 3s. Land Transfers.—Ueaerally speaking, the same duties as would have been payable on a conveyance. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium : Where rent does not exceed £o0 3a for every additional £60 or part of £50 3s. For any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any consideration exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from all duty up to £6000 iu respect to every succession by lineal descendant. or ancestor. (J N Cm AIM RD MONEYS ill very company (including banks, life insurance offices, and hrms acting as agents or private bankers for individuals or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneysin the oolony in an account which has not been opor a ted on for six or more years; such register to be open lor inspection ti. payment of a fee; register to be published" in the New Zealand Government Gazette annually; notice to be seat to last known add res* of person jn whose name money stands; and money not claimed within two years or auoh notice is to be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer. ONION CULTURE. Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, m, the best of the large sorts—a shape'?, oltan-looking bulb, and keeps lon<j*r than the Roccas. Brown Globe, G.-l-Jen Globe, James's Keeping, and Brow n Spanish are all excellent late keepers None of the white-ekinned vvistie* are worth growing, except for pickling. Pickling-onicma are obtained by soirmg

seed of White Queen or some sort, about the middle of .November. The soil should be poor, and made firm; kow 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 furtlier empowered in regard to workers'' dwellings. The section- provides that a Council may (1) let land to a worker for the purpose of orooting a worker's .dwelling j (2) advance money to a worker to enable him to acquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (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 hy instalments. THE FENCING ACT. ERECTION OF FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule is a sufficient fence within the meaning of the Fencing Act (5.7). The occupiers of adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence are liable to join in or contribute in equal proportions to the erection of a fence Detween such lands, although such fence may not extend along the wliole boundary line. But no occupier is liable to contribute to any fence which is not, m far as practicable, ooaiiniioss throughout its length. THE RULES OF THE jsOAD. The Rule of the Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you boar to the left you are rfure to go right, If you turn to the rifrht you go wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different cose; To the right it is right wou should steer, On the left- should be left enough of clear space Foi the people who wish to walk there. LEGAL TENDER.

Tender of monew may legally be made—in tlie cas eof bronze coins, for any amount not exceeding Is; in the case of silver coins, not exceeding 40s; in th ecase of gold coins for any amount, unless coined prior to the reign of Queen Victoria (33 and 34 Vic. c. 10, sec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., ISSJO.). Bank notes are now <legal tender in New Zealand and are still a ' first charge on the assets of the bank of issue ("Bank Note T. c -sue Act, 1893 " TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z. MEAN TIME. As compared with— Adelaide ... ... ... 10 0 a.m. Aden ... ... - S 31 a.m. Alexandria 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam ... ... 0 -50 a.m. Berlin 1 23 am. Berne 1 0 am. Bombay ... .. ... 5 21 a.m. Boston . , '7 46 p.m. Brindisi ... ... ... 1 42 am. Brisbane ... 10 30 am. Brussels 6 84 *m. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a the ground, should be trenchod em directed for the vegetable garden p.ny time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a season n-ay be gained by sowing the jijrass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised .aid trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 2lEis; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loiium tenuifolia porenne, 201 bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 4lbs of each. This mixture will 'uffice ior half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and iT 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 lawn purposes. If tho ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon ■as the machine will act. Some )refer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives oi the mo war.

IMPOUNDING CATTLE, ETC. r All trespassing cattle may be im pounded by the occupier of the (and on u'hic'» they are trespassing; but id Lbe case ol unfenced land-, the occapier is not entitled to ciaim any damages except fees for driving, or for giving notice of the detention "of such cattle, as provided in the Seoond Schedule. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW A\ ■ ACRE. Harley, 2} to SJ bushels; beans, 3 to 2j bushels; buckwheat, or brank, lj bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; wvrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. eo 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 be; do. for eingle-line fencing, to sow one milo, 3 to 4 lbe; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs, linseed, for flax, 2J bushels; linseed, for seed. It bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbe; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzol, 5 lbe; oate, 3 to 4 bushal.*; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole. 1 pKt; rye, 2i to 8 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth lees), 2 to 2} bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 24 bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2} bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 84 lbs; turnip, 2 to 8 lbs; turnip stnbblfl, 4 lbs; wheat- 21 to 21 bushels.