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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4523, 5 February 1923, Page 2

Mr M. C. Jansen, of Francis Line, Carterton, has 28 acres’ -of land under peas this season. Mr Jansen put in two bushels to the acre for the season, as he says that he could not afford to buy more seed. This sparce planting has resulted in a prolific crop,'and is an object lesson on how to sow peas.

Quite a lot of liquor has probably been brought into Invercargill by passengers on the tramcars coming into town from Waikiwi (says the “Southland Times”). Handbags, hampers, and sometimes sugar bags are used to conceal the liquor from public gaze, but it would be a difficult matter tp satisfy any suspicions entertained in respect of the contents of these receptacles. Nevertheless, the tramways' department has decided to take every possible precaution to prevent liquor being brought intn town in this way, and the traffic manager lias issued instructions to conductors in-this respect.

With a view to convincing the public that there are still large quantities of gold in the bed of the Kawarau, the promoters of the big scheme now being undertaken to dam the source of the river have secured a quantity of nuggets and wash recently found, which has been placed in a shop window at Dunedin. One jar contains 41oz of gold, valued at £164, which is said to have been secured from the river bed in a fortnight by a prospector using a knife and a dish when the river was lbw last winter. The specimens of wash show a great deal of gold embedded in the rock. Another sample, weighing lOdwt, was secured ip two hours.