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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 February 1916, Page 4

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LOR READ* ttEFERENt'E. HINTS TO TRA\ ELuERS IN OPEN COUNTRY. If unknown ground is to be travers9d and a long day's journey lies before you, be careful to make an early a tart i_i the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and be certain to understand them thoroughly, as Umo 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 a 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. j if overtaken by fog, should you know 1 a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance ot a clearance of j the Hying mist, however slight, to dis--1 cern a known object to guide your path. Should you misa track, return at once without fail to the point at which you loet it, and make a fresh start on the right track. It compelled to camp out overnight, choose a sheltered apot 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, lor bed, which place in rear of a Qax bush. If raining, tie the ends ol the tlax 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 night as many suppose. STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, eto., attached, 3s. Appraisement, ot Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £50, 2a bd, oxoeed £100, and does not exceed £2')o 10s, £200 and does not exceed £6')o 15s, exceeds £500 20a. Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. P.n's. not exceeding £25 6d, exceeds £25, and not exceeding Jtso Is, every additional £50 or part of £50 Is. 10s. Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2(1; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, for any amount not exceeding i -jiJ, Is; every additional £50 or part j .it £00, Is.; if drawn in a set, such I slim upon each bill ot the set as to nvake j up the same duiy as ll a single nil | ware drawn for tlie amount.

Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale: lor every £50 or part oi £50 of tne amount ol the consideration tor sale. 7s 6d. Any instrument whereby any properly is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any . person tor a nominal consideration or where no consideration passes, lor wery £ol) or part of £00 of the amount or value ol the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "JLiio Property Assessment 4.ct, ibSo,'' im- any Aci amending the -anw at the date when such instrument takes eifect, 10s. Promissory Notes.—layinent on doniand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every yum not exceeding £20, ijd,; exceeding £25 and .uot exceeding £50, is.; every additional fcoO or part of £50, Is. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where such duty does not amount to 3s, the same duties as the original instru.ment,; in any other case 3s. Land Transfers.—U en or ally speaking, tile 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 £od 3<: for every additional £50 or part ol £50 3s. For 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 oy lineal descendant or ancestor. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS. Employers are made responsible for 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 tor work results from the injury, compensation to be a weekly payment not less than £1 a week, and total liability ol employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to be liable in respect oi an injury which is proved to bo direotly attributable to the serious and wilful misconduct of the worker, UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including bank*, lift insurance oilices, and hrms acting as agents or private bankers for individuals or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the colony in au account which has not been opor ated on for six or more years; such register to be open lor inspection ci. payment of a fee; register to be published in the New Zealand Government Gazette annually; notice to be seat to last known address of person in whose name money stands} and money not claimed within two years oi subh 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—a ahape'y, cU an-1 coking bulb, and keeps lon<g*r than the Rocoas. Brown Globe, Golden Globe, James's Keeping, and Brot* n Spanish are all excellent late keepers None of the white-skinned r*.*idties are • worth growing, exoept tor piekling. Pickling-onions are obtained by sowing

seed of White Queen or some sort, about j the middle of November. The ' soil ! should be poor, and made firm; vow i thickly, and do not thin the plants. WORKERS' DWELLINGS. j .Borough Councils are empowered by the Municipal Corporations Act to erect for the occupation of workers employed or resident in boroughs any buildings suitable lor workers' dwellings, or may acquueTjuildings 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 Bection provides that a Council may (1) let land t,-> a worker lor the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worKer to enable him to acquire land and build a worker'* dwelling thereon; (3) sell to a worker .''ny separate worker's dwelling. Provision is made for the repayment of advances and the payment of advances and the payment ol purchase-money hy instalments. THE FENCING ACT. ERECTION OP FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule is a *ufhoient fence within the meaning of the Fencing Act (a.7). The oocapiers 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 oe tween suoh 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, m far as praotisable, ooatiimoip throughout its length.

THE RULES OF THE kOAD. The Rule of the Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you. bear to the left you are sure to go right, If yo« turn to the ripht you 40 wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different case; To the right it is right wou shoald steer, On the left Bhould be left enough of clear space FOl the people' ffho wish to walk there. LEGAL TENDER. Tender of rnouew may legally be made—in the oas eof bronze coins, for any amount not exceeding Is; in the caso of silver coins, not exceeding 10s; in th ecase of gold coins for any amount, unless coined prior to the reign of Queen Victoria (33 and 31 Vio. c. 10, sec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890). Bank notes are now legal tender in New Zealnnd and are still a first obarge on the assets ol the bank of issue ("Bauk Note l.«sue 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 ... ... 3 28 a.m. Amsterdam 0 50 a.m. Berlin 1 88 am. Berne ... ... 1 0a m. Bombay ... 5 21 a.m. Boston 7 46 p.m. Brindisi 1 42 am. Brisbane .. 10 30 am. Brussels 6 34 it m. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a lit.vn, the ground should be trench*»d -aa directed for the vegetable garden any tftue during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a season nay be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must bo thoroughly pulverised ~nd trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable Crested Dog-tail, 21 Bis; Festuca teuuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will suffice lor half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept out close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be nad from any seedsman. Some of >ur native poas and other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive natare, sowing the seeds 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 the knives ot the moi^ar. IMPOUNDING CATTLE, EIC. All trespassing cattle may be im pounded by the occupier of the land on whicfc they are trespassing; but m the case of unfenced land, the occupier is not entitled to ciaim any damages except fees for driving, or for giving notice of the detention ur vieh cattle, as provided in the Second Schedule. SEEDS REQUIRED IX) SOW AN ACRE. riarley, to 2] bushels; beans, 3 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for Feed, 20 to 24 'be; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs-, linseed, for flax, 2i bushels; linseed, for seed, 1J bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushel*; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 p*t; rye, 2i to 8 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth lees), 2 to 2J bushels ; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2} bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2} bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 34 lbs; turnip. 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lb*; wheat- 2J to 2} bushels.