NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The .sharp decline in- the price- of ewe mutton at the Ashburton yards the other day must have hit a lew farmer-dealers very severely -ays the "Guardian"). For some time a number have been buying tip tape ewes at anything up to fids per head and more. A good lew of these ewemade their appearance yesterday in the fat pens, and of the -Id odd lines | which were sold not more than a dozen brought over gtts. The popular price was between Ids lid and 1/s HJ. A novel and inexpensive method ol eradicating the blackberry pest habeen adopted with success by a leading native of Rotorua (stale- all CX'liange -. The procedure is to fence oil' a small area where eiump.s of blackberry cxi'i and convert the enclosure inm a piggery. The eradication is carried out hy the pigs, who display a relish 1m the blackberry roots. The e.-n-lant rooting provides an eliectivc remedy, and our informant states lie warn -iiuw il a paddock formerly a mass "i bhickherrv that now does not contain a trace nf the pest, so elfertively have the pigs done their work. M lien cleaned up a | art her area is fenced oil and the pigs turned in there. The system 'might he tried locally with advantage, where blackberry has obtained a hold. Ti;.. exceptional return ol 1!) tolls of i .mien- to the acre has been secured by l Mr i led or (uiodwin. 11 nlsw eil. in-m a | pve acre field (states an exchange'). The el-op was free fr. m blight and presented a good illustration of what ioteusivo farming will do v.ltore the soil permits it. The pre etu price of moons is low I'd :Is (id pur toil—but even at this figure lbe live acres have yielded, a value of L'J 1 I. or over JLT.S per acre.

it would he interesting to know ; where a letter that has just been l'e- j turned to a resident ol C hrist elnu eh | has heeti during the past eight years , Isays the Christchurch "Sun")- ’< was addressed to a tnemher oi the j Otago Battalion who was believed to | lie a prisoner of war in Turkey, bill : will! was subsequently posted as being j killed ill action. The letter hears all | the stamps o! the various censors j which wore f«nnili«tr w:ir tinu*. Despite its long sojourn abroad. it has lieeii reLiirued to the -"odor 111 an excellent state. \ (;i.«,hu!-nito ! *ji s Horn ahrcail lonrict'n Russian hank \u*[r-\ th« i total sum rciu'cstuitcd heimi ftjiihit's (states tho ’‘Poverty Ray !! wahr >. Tho notes an* so:nowhat liko our own hank notes, ox--1 copi. i;i < (»ui''C tliai tbo l> jdi lie re oi . Tlie largest note is no bigger til.m i lie small t mi-.-lii Hi ng bank j cole in ( i reula lie u hole. hi pi e-wa t ! da vs ihe -tin! mentioned above would j have been I lie <-quiva loll l lo a (olisiil- ! erahk amount in Enehsli ciirreuey, : 1 1 a; ii, iw . of course, the amount it re- • [in us is i nftnii esimal.