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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 February 1916, Page 4

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FOR READ! 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 limo thus spent is not lost on a long day's journey. Should you loss your way, and know of any habitation within reach, a mile or two is not lost a making enquiries there regarding vour road.

A"over travel without mutches. .Never take a short cut over swampy or unknown ground. always follow slieep or cattle tracks in the direction tor which you are making. If overtaken by fog, should you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chancy of a clearance of the flying mist, liowever slight, to discern a known object to guide your path. Should you miss track, return at once without fail ta the point at which you lost it, and make a fresh start 'tu uia right track. if compelled to camp out overnight, cJiocse a aheltered spot before darkness sets in, giving yourself sufficient time to complete all possible arrangements lor personal comfort under such untoward circumstances in the way of gathering fire material, grass tor 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 the rain off. This, with tussocks to fill up the gaps in tie 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, etc., attached, iis.

Appraisement oi Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £50, 2s 6d, exceed £100, and does not exceed £200 10s, £200 and doe? not exceed £500 15s, exceeds £500 20s. Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. l'.n's. not exceeding £25 6d, exceeds £25, and not exceeding £50 Is, every additional £50 or part of £50 Is. 10s. Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2d ; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, ior any amount not exceeding £50, la; every additional £50 or part ui' £50, Is.; if drawn in a set, such suau upon each bill of the set as to make up the same duty as n a single IUI were drawn for the amount. Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale : lor every £50 or part of £50 of tlie amount ot the consideration for sale. /» 6d. Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person for a nominal (.uiiiideration or where no consideration passes, for *weiy £50 or part of £50 of tiie amount or ralue oi the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under '"'The Property Assessment 4.ct, 1685," oj- any Act amending the i ame it the date when such instrument takes efiect, 10s.

Promissory Notes. —Payment oil demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exceeding £25, 'Jd,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding £50, 1».; every additional £50 or part of £50, Ib. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where such duty does not amount to 3s, the same duties, as the original instru>111 en t; in any other case 3a. Land Transfers.—Generally speaking, Uie 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 £50 3a for every additional £50 or part Oi £50 3s. For any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any consideration exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from a'l duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant or ancestor. W ORKMEN 'S COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS. Employers are made responsible for accident to workmen under certain conditions. Limit of liabiEty 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 leee than £1 a week, and total liability of employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to be liable "In respect of an injury which is proved to be directly attributable to tho serious and wilful misconduct of the worker. <&■ UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including banks, lifa 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 six or more years; such register to be open lor inspection cu 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 year* of such notice is to be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer. ONION CULTURE. Ailsa Craig, if of a good (train, is, the best of the large sorts—a shape ;, cUan-looking bulb, and keeps lon<i*f than the Roccas. Brown Globe, Golden Globe, James's Keeping, and Uro* n Spanish aire all excellent lata keepers None of the white-skinned vviatic* are worth growing, except for p'okling. Pickling-onions are obtained by sowing

seed of White Queen or some sort, alout | the middle of November. The soil < should be poor, and made firm; sow | thickly, and do not thin the plants. WORKERS DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by the Municipal Corporations Act to erect for th® 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 I same purpose, the letting to be in the hands of the Council. By section 52 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, Councils axe further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The section provides tbat a Council may (1) let land to a worker for the purpose of erects ing a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worKer to enable him to acquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (3) sell to a worker -iny 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). I The occupiers of adjoining lands not i divided by a sufficient fence are liable to join in or contribute in equal proportions to the erection of a fence dotween 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 practisaMe, oomtinnoap throughout its length. THE RULES OF THE *OAD. 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, If yon turn to the ryrht you go 1 wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different case; To the right it is right wou should ■teer, i On the left should be left enough of clear space For the people vho wish to walk there. LEGAL TENDER. Tender of monew may legally be made—in the 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 i reign of Queen Victoria (33 and -34 Vic. e. 10, sec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890). Bank notes are now legal tender m New Zealand and are still a first charge on the assets of the 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 •.. ... ■■■ S SI 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. j Brisbane 10 90 am. 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 autumn. If the plot y can be prepared in March, a season iray be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised ~nd j trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— ,j Crested Dog-tail, 21Fs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will mffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept out close answers most soils. Special mixtures r for laying down lawns may also be nad - from any seedsman. Some of our J native poas and other grasses would - answer admirably for lawn purposes. • If the ground is of a retentive nature, r sowing the 6eeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon s as the machine will act. Some oret fer the scythe for the first time of i cutting. Roll previous to mowing; t this will save the knives ot the mowar.

IMPOUNDING CATTLE, EK). All trespassing cattle may be im pounded by the occupier of the land on whick they are trespassing; but iu the case of unfenced land, the occupier is not entitled to claim any damages except fees for driving, or for giving notice of the detention of *uch cattle, as provided in the Second Schedule. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW A N ACRE. ttarley, 2J to SJ bushels; beans, 3 to 2} bushels; buckwheat, or brank, li bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, Bto 12 lbs; clover, l-i to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 lbs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to i lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted' cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2} bushels; linseed, for seed, 1} bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pat; rye, 21 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; fcifolium incarnatum, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbi; wheat. 21 to S} bushels.