WEATHER FORECAST

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 March 1916, Page 3

WEATHER FORECAST

• Weiuntgon, uas -Dav. The -indications are lor soutliouv winds strong to gale. j-iie weather will ijrc.'ba.'Wy become colder. J lie 'barometer is rising.

Bim'iii.'sis premises to the value o. about £20.000 will lie erected in -Uatsterion during the next lew months, saxt.. the Wairarapa Age. A farmer in the Inglewo.-d dis.nci wii! take off his iarrn this year £30 per cow (reports the .News). Calves are not included, the money being made out of butter-hit- and pigs. T,,e cows are of no particular bleed, excepting that the Jcrsey-fcfhorthorn cro-.s predominates. lug) wood laud is iiip proving considerably and just now when many places are suffering from lack of water, the country is looking fine. "Wheat in 'Australia lor local consumption is 4s 6d a bushel, and tne price of bread (ijd a lo:il." said _»lr A. G. at the.Timaru Farmers Union meeting recently. "In Timaru wheat is 4s,.(id, yet the price ol the loaf is 9d." This, lie said, was surely lout of proportion. ni Wanna to bread was only Btl. He thought tna as producers they should bring ui matter before the authorities as ti:e •price of bread was altogether too high. The chairman (Mr J. Talbot) said competition had a good deal to do with the price, as it require;! so nuioh money to be spent in distributing bread—at a cost that was out oi all proportion. He doubted it the price of bread in England during wartime was any dearer tlTan in Timaru. ■Mr H. J. MeKeown snidi wheat vixa coming down in price all the tune, yet bread was not reduced. It was decided to place the matter before uiio ißoard of Trade expressing surpjise at. the unreasonable price ol" bread wJien compared with tlie price of wheat. The bazaar in aid of the Weraroa Church room was brought to a conclusion in the King's Theatre last evening. The attendance again was large, and business was, if anything, bet-, ter than on the previous evening. The irjdies (Mrs and Miss \V hi taker) in charge of the sweet stall did so well that tfliey sxrid right out'," and trie young ladies' stall, fu charge oi tiro Young Ladies Guild, had very little left at the close. A small quantity of produce left over rroni the produce stall, was sold by auction by Mr A. W. .Rlahter, at oar gain rates. The maypole dance was given by the children', and the picture entitled "•Oliver Twist" based on Charles Dickens's famous story was a very tine one. ■ Jie hoys' band jrom the l raining J. 1 arm played several selections. The, bazaar should prove a financial success anu Miss Bowen and the members ot tne Ladies' Guild deserve it tor tilie <£reat amount of work tihey put 111 to ta effort.