NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

Farmers in the Oamr.ru district are likely to pay more attention to llie pig industry in the coining years than they linve done in the past. A prominent dairy farmer told a ‘'North Otago T imes” representative* that he believed there would shortly he a big move in the direction of pig-raisiug.

A resident of lloxborougli (Central Otago), writing to a Mastertou relative, says:—''Wo are having a very bard winter, and there i- a water famine*. Not a single water tap in the township "ill run. all being frozen. I have r. tank, s . take o|f the lid, smash through the ice. and dip tin* water out. Even the ink is frozen in the mornings.—“Wairarapa Daily limes.”

At a meeting of the Hastings ( lialiihrr of Commerce it was stated ( reports the “Tribune" I. that everyone, for their health's sake, should ' it .it teu-l lour apples a day. and it lie.' did -i

there would he no siic-li thing as a congested fruit market. A fruitgrower stated that cniisiimptinn on that scale in Hastings and Napier alone would require more ap-ides than are grown m Hawke’s Bav, and there would bo no need for fruitgrowers to look for markets in other parts of New Zealand or abroad.

‘•Before the recent spell of very rough weather, stated a Glenomuru hush settler to a Balelutha ‘Tree press" representative the other day. "f noticed great numbers of tuis in the hush. As von know the t-ni is a shy |,ird. and we seldom see many of them in the hush about C'eiiomaru. hut there they were, thicker than I have cvci seen them hefoi-. After that we bail Ihc rough weather, and now the tins have disapnenred. ' I heir apocarnncc the lower levels of the hush land was probably due to an instinct that conveyed to them knowledge of a coming storm.

A good story comes Imm the \\ airaiapa the veracity of which is vouched for by a Wellington commercial traveller. A certain borough was canvassing for suhseriotions for the local war memorial. A certain quantity of money had been collected, but the canvassers wore not satisfied. Accordingly disensMOU arose at the Borough Gounnl meeting at which one of the members rose, and addressing the chair said inter alia : "Mr niairman. i muler-toed hat .all tho subscriptions were to Im „iude bv spontaneous combustion: And laughter drowned the explana- ,,,, that he meant “by voluntary subscription.”

Statistic nr<* valiant drstroyrrs <’• illusions. D has been widely accepted that, since the war. the general tendency has been for both men am. women to marry later (says the ‘‘-'m"Chester Guardian"l. The British Lc-wi.-lrat'-Genenil's figures for ll>2l snow that the favourite age lor men is -1. and for women 21. Moreover, near..' 0i1,.-fifth of the persons who married m that vear wore under 21. 'Dili the-ex-ecution Of the periods KMA-PUC. there has not been c busy a marrying year since 1874. Yet. the birth-rate was the lowest since 18.37. when the statist n s |,coin again with the exception of the v.iir wears -a fact from which two or three morals not necessarily in ment with each other, max >' 1 1