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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1916, Page 4

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(Oil READY REFERENCE. MINIS 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 litart ia the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and be certain ta understand them thoroughly, as timo thus spent is not lost on a long day's journey. Should you Jose your way, and know of any habitation within reach, a mile or two is not lost n making enquiries there regarding voinroad. Never travel without matches. Novor take a short cut over swampy or unknown ground. Always follow sheep or cattle tracks in the direction for which you are making. 11 overtaken by fojj, should you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance ot a clearance of : the liying 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 whioh you lost it, and make a fresh start on the right track. if compelled to camp out overnight, choose a sheltered spot before darkness acts in, giving yourself sufficient time U> complete all possible arrangements tor personal comfort under suoh untoward circumstances in the way of gathering lire material, grass for bed, which place in rear of a Uax bush. If raining, tie the ends ot the ilax 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 oovering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose.

STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, etc., attached, 3s. Appraisement of Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £50, 2s lid, 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, 35a. P.n's. not txoeediiig £25 bd, exceeds .5,25, and not exceeding ±>50 Is, every additional £50 or part oi £50 Is. 10s. Hills of Exchange. Oon demand 2d; otherwise than on demand, if running o:ngly, ior any. amount not exceeding fSO, lb; every additional £50 or part o* £50, Is.; it' drawn in a set, such si:m upon each bill oi the set as to irake up the same duty as u a single fill iv ere drawn for th« amount. Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale; For every £50 or part oi £50 of tiie amount ol the consideration tor sale, 7s 6d. Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any pert>on tor a nominal consideration or whore no consideration passes, for wery £50 or part of £50 ui tiie amount or value ol the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment 4ct, i6Bs,'' oi- any .vet amending the 'ame at the date whon 6uch instrument takes elf'ect, 10s. Promissoiy Notes.—Payment on demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exceediug £25, od,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding £50, is.; every additional £50 or part of £60, Is. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where such duty does not amount to 3s, the same duti&s as the original instriimeni; in any other case 3s. Land Transfers.—Generally speaking, the same duties m would have been payable on a conveyance. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of preaij iuni: Where rent does not exoeed £ou 3.: for every additional £50 or part Oi £50 3s. Tor 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 Dy lineaJ. descendant or ancestor. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR. ACCIDENTS.

Employers are made 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 lees than £1 a week, aud total liability of omployer not to exceed £500. An employer not to be liable in respect oi an injury which is proved to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful misconduct of the worker. UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including banks, lifa iiifiuranco ollioes, and forms actfag as agents or private bankers for individuals or companies) must yearly, register all unclaimed moneys in the colony in an account which ha* not been opoi' ated on for six or more years; such register to be open lor inspection ci. payment of a fee; register to he published in the New Zealand Gov«rn«neni Gazette annually; notice to be neat to last known add res* of person in whose name money stands; and money not claimed within two yearn of such notice is to be paid over to the Colonial treasurer. ONION CULTURE. Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, is, the best of the large sorts—* ahapey, cUan-looking bulb, and k«epa longer than the Roccas. Brown Globe, Gulden Globe, James's Keeping, Mid tfrot* n Spanish aire all excellent lat« keepers None of the white-skinned ? vis tie* are worth growing, exoept lor pickling. Picisling-omions are obtained by sowing

seed of Wlute Queen or some sort) about J the middle of Noveinuer. The soil \ should bo pool", and made firm; iow thickly, and do not thin the plants. WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by the 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 purpuee, the letting to be in the hands of the Council. J3y section 62 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, Council* are further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The seQtioii provides that a Council may (1) l©t land to a worker for the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worKer to enable him to acquire laud and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (3) sell to a worker mny 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 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 Between such lands, although such fence may not extend along the whole boundary line. But no occupier is liable to contribute to any fence which is not, u far m praotiwibl*, ooariinaon.throughout its length. THE RULES OF THE JtU)AD. The Rule of the Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you bear to the left you are iure to go right, 1 If yo« turn to the ryrht you go 1 wrong. Bub in walking the streets 'tis a different case; To the right it is right wou should rteer, 1 On 'he left should be left enough of clear space Foi the people ffho wish to walk there.

LEGAL TENDER. Tender of monew may legally be made—in tiie cas eof bronze coins, for any amount not exceeding Is; in the ease 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 Vio. c. 10, sec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890). Bank notes are now legal tender In New Zealand and ar« still a first charge on the assets of the bank of | issue ("Bauk Note Iroue Act, 1893 " TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z. MEAN TIME. As compared with— Adelaide 10 0 a.m. Aden ... ... ... 3 81 a.m. Alexandria ... ... 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam ... ... 0 50 a.m. Berlin ... ... ... 1 23 %m. 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 hm. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a lawn, the ground should be trenched aa directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a season nay be gained by -cowing the ;;rass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised <,nd trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 211Js; Festuca tenuifoiia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliuui tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White ciover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Neinoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will office 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. Some of our native pons and other grasses wo:ild answer admirably lor iawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive natare, sowing the seeds should De deferred till August. Commence to out as csoon as the machine will act. Some »reier the scythe for the first time o? cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mowar. IMPOUNDING CATTLE, ErC. All trespassing cattle may be im pounded by the occupier of the land on whick they are trespassing; but m the case oi unfenced land, the occapier is not entitled to ciaim any damages except fees for driving, or ior giving notice of the detention uf «uch cattle, as provided in the Second Schedule.

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AV ACRE. rJarley, 21 to 2} bushels; beams, S to 21 bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 11 bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; o*."rot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1 - to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 : bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one miJe, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs-, linseed, for flax, 2} bushels; linseed, for seed, 11 busbala; lucerne, broadcast, 20 Ibe; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oatfl, 3 to 4 bushel*; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 p*t; rye, 21 to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 21 bushels : sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 21 bushels; do., spring, 8 to 21 bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 84 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat. 21 to 2} bushel®.