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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 July 1916, Page 4

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FOll HEAD! REFERENCE. STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of MemorandaiX. of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, etc., attached, 3s. Appraisement ot Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; .x----ceod £20, does not exceed £50, 2s t>d, exceed £100, and does not exceed £2)0 10s, ££30 and does not exceed £500 15s, exceeds £500 20s. < Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 hut not £1000, 20s; excoeds £1000, 355. i'.n's. uot exceeding £25 6d, exceeds £25, and not exceeding £50 Is, every 10s. Gills or Exchange. Oon demand 2(1; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, for any amount not exceeding £50, Is; every additional £50 or part of £50, Is. ; if drawn in a set, such sum upon each bill of the set as to irake up the same duty as it a single I'ill were drawn tor the amount. Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale: lor every £50 or part ol £50 of tlie amount of the consideration for sale 7« (id. Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any parson lor a nominal consideration or wheire no consideration passes, for wary £50 or part of £50 of Uio amount or value ol the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment \ct, ißßo,'' or any Act amending the 'ame at tlio date when such instrument takes effect, 10s. Promissory Notes.—Payment on demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exceeuinj£ £25, od,; exceeding £25 and t exceeding £50, li.; every additional £50 or part of £50, Is. Duplicate or counterpart of anj m strument chargeable with duty, where, such duty does not amount to ia, the same duties as the original instri ment; in any other case 3s. Land Transfers.—Generally speaking the same duties as would bave been payable on a conveyance. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium : Where rent does not exceed £50 Sn lor every additional £50 or part of £50 Bs. Pot any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon *ny consideration exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from all duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant or xiicestor. WORKERS' DWELLINGS. .Borough Councils are empowered by the Municipal Corporations Act to erect far 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 further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The section provides that a Council may (1) let land t.> a worker for the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worker to enable him to aoquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (8) sell to a worker ay separate worker's dwelling. 1 Provision is made for the repayment of advances and the payment of advances and the payment of purchase-money by instalments.

Alexandria 2 28 a.m. I Amsterdam ••• U 50 aw. j Berlin ••• 33 .» m. | Burn© ■ • * 0» in UuuiDuj • ... a al i» u. ovtftou '•• ■■■ ' 10 f » u - Driuaui •- 42 » ui. bjWbaiJt) ■■■ W 80 a oa. Uruesela ••• • • 34 » ®. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a la /ia t the ground should be trenohed M directed for the vegetable garden any time during tlie autumn. If the piot cai be prepared in March, a season may be gained by Bowing the graas seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised ..nd trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Created Dog-tail, 21Es; Feetuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliuin tenuitolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, Slbs; Poa Nouioralis and Seurpervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will uffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cul: close answers most soils. Special inixt'J ee for laying down lawns may ")so bo nad from any seedsman. Some of jur native poas and oth*r grasses woild answer admirably ior !nwn purpo-ys. li th& ground is of a iWontivo nat.ire, sowing the seeds should ti;> deferred til' August. Commence lo cur. as -*)un as the machine will net. Some ireler the scythe for the first time j 1 cutting.' Roll previous to (Jus will save the knives ot the inoivot. IMJ'OI'.CDTNC CATTLE, KIO. All trespassing cattle may be >tii pound'id hv the occupier of the lanti on which they are trespassing; biu in '.he case of unfenced land, the occj p:er is not entitled to ciaim any dam except fees for driving, or : o' giving notice of the detention A such cattle, as provided in 'iie Second Schedule. SJEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW aN ACRE. "barley, 2* to SJ bushels; beana, 3 to 2j bushels; buckwhoat, or biank, 11 bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; in drills, 3 to 12 lbs; clover, 1„ «o 17 lbs; furze or gurse, for feed, 20 to 24 be; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 Ibe; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 21 bushels; linseed, for seed, 1} bushals, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbu; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtael, 5 lb6; oats, 3to 4 buahelp ; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 p<ct; rye, 21 to 8 bushels; rye grass lil drilled, one-fourth lees), 31 to Si Vugfcels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tare*, winter, 31 bushels; do., spring, 3 k 31 bushels; Jxifoliiun inoarnatum, S4 lbB; turnip, 3 to 8 lbs; turnip stmbbl*. 4 lbt; wheat. 31 to 21 nasbala.