DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1927, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. LORRY LICENSES. ONE DEFENDANT FIXED £2ii. AUCKLAND. Aug. 11. A number of convictions were entered by Mr K. W. McKean. S.M., in' the Magistrate’s Court against owners and drivers of Lorries operating with-j out heavy traffic licenses. Action was. taken by the Mount Eden Borough] Council. Mr Terry appeared for the ! Council and Mr H. Bransgrove. traffic inspector for the borough, gave the: necessary evidence. i T. Evison was charged with opera- j ting a motor lorry with a disc showing] an expired heavy traffic license, and operating a lorry without a heavy trat-l fit- license. Messrs T. G. Evison and ; Eon were charged with permitting tin lorry to he used. Mr Evison. sen., stated that the partnership had been j dissolved, and that he now had no interest jn the vehicle. Mr Bransgrove ■ said that the Post Office had given hint , the name of the firm as being (he registered owners. T. T. Evison was lined i'd on the first charge and £1 on tlie second, while the firm was fined a further Cl.

Similar charges were brought against U. Renwick, driver and David Lye, owner, in connection with a motor lorry which when weighed showed it required a £155 license. Lye was fined £2O and Renwcik £1 on each charge. Thomas Prendergast, driver, and Prendergast Brothers, owners, had similar charges against them in connection with a light truck, the license for which should have been .£(>. The firm was fined £3, and tlie driver £1 on each charge. 0. P. Stephens was charged with operating a lorry without a heavy traffic 'license. He was fined £3. All fines were with costs.

BUS SERVICES. WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. To a deputation to-day, the Mayor (AL G. A. Troup) said that the Loss on the municipal bus services this year was likely to increase from £O.OOO to £13.000. ' A GENEROUS REQUEST. AUCKLAND, Aug. 1.5. A generous gift of £IOOO for tlie establishment of a scholarship at tlie Massey Agricultural College at Palmerston North, lias been made to the Auckland University College by Mr John Court at a meeting of the University Council. The President, Hon. G. Fowlds, read the letter from Mr Court’s solicitors suggesting a. number of conditions upon which tho gift might he accepted. Among these, it was proposed that a scholarship should ho awarded by the Auckland College Council to candidates who had been resident for two years in the Auckland Province and whose parents wore unable to provide them with the benefits it offered. Air Fowlds: Under the new University Act the income from the Government subsidy of 10s in the ,£1 on the gift could not he earmarked for supplementing the latter, as Air Court had hoped, but the subsidy would have to he added to the general endowment of the college. In moving that the donor he sincerely thanked Air Fowlds said that Air Court was the principal proprietor of the Hobson farm, which had already given a valuable pedigree Frcisian buli' lo the New Zealand Agricultural Col-

A L’LTAXCE WANTS LAW AAI ENDED WELLINGTON. Aug. 15.

The Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Alliance met on Friday, when resolutions were passed urging the Government to alter the present laws so as 1 : throw upon any person charged in respect of any motor accident a.nil who -haws any signs of inning taken liquor, i lie onus of proving that such accident was not caused thereby.

Resolutions were also passed stating ihat it was neither right, nor p.ili- ? io, nor justifiable in ally way for the state to afford legal protection and sanction to traffic in liquor, and the Legislature ought to remove all discredited and ob.st ruel ive barriers to a dear expression of the people's will, and all good citizens should combine to ensure of this being none.

ETGHTEEX COWS TO THE ACRE. AX AUSTRALIAN ( LA I AT. AUCKLAND. Auk. 10. Tn view of the fact- that a cow to the acre i.s regarded as a. fair average in Xew Zealand farming circles, a. claim made that in Xew South Wales liy intensive farming methods, eighteen cows can ho carried to the acre will occasion more than passing interest. One of the passengers liv the Ulimnroa was Air P. F. Farmvorth. formerly a member of the Xew Zealand Police Force, who for some years was engaged in farming in the Wanganui district. He lias just completed an extensive tour of Australia and explained that the town supply of milk in several inland centres was dependent upon close cultivation and intensive farming methods. Ho came across a specific instance of the success of a scheme where the average was somewhat of a. record, eighteen cows lieing carried to the acre. This was made possible by reason of the fact that the animals had a special diet of brewers’ grain, lucerne hay and linseed oil cakes. The land was devoid of growth. ATr Farmvorth had a vision of settling on the land in Australia, hut. after what ho saw, to use his own words, he would not dream of taking up farming there. They complained of paucity of growth in the King Country, hut the land there was remarkably fertile compared with some he had seen in the course of his tour. The Xew Zealand record for intensive farming is claimed for the Waverloy district in South Taranaki, where, when the Alouniahaln State Farm was in. full swing, twelve grown sheep to the acre were carried all the year round. This was made possible hv the cultivation of lucerne and feeding the animals in different areas in rotation. ITnd additional feed to the pastures keen provided, the average head per acre (ould have been increased, and

to the Xew Zealand way of thinking ihe Xew South AYales claim savours more of the stockyard than the open paddocks.