THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 145, 5 April 1909, Page 2

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Important Alterations

In the course of his policy speech at Wellington on Friday last, Sir Joseph Ward outlined the intentions of the Government in connection with the Civil Service. Thirty-four departments are to be reduced to eighteen. The Old Age Pensions and Stamps Departments will both be merge; ir. the Post Office, | The Friendly Societies., at yieser., | under a separate registrar w;i; he at- | tached to the Treasury Department. | The Electorate Deaprtrr.cn: will cease ! to exist as a separate department. an d ! will come under the operation c: the | j Internal AiTairs Department. J :be that of the Police and Prisons De- j j partmcnt with that of Justice, f | The Defence Council of f.ve metn- | . bers which recently superseded the f. ! system of control by 2 commander-in- j> : cheif of the forces, will be sccli?'--..; f

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Id California there is a curious farm. The more it is cultivated the less it grows. It is a salt farm, covering 1000 acres, and has continued to yield a harvest for more than twenty years. If the separator shakes while it is skimming, there will be some intermixing of the milk and cream, and the result is poor work. The operator should aim to secure two things if he expects his machine to do good work: 1. A perfectly true motion of bowl, and 2, sufficient speed, which most be uniform,to create force for separating. Taking ail the different kinds of food used by homan beings, probably in milk we find the one in which the consumption is going up most rapidly. It is not wise for a stranger to a district to start right off and introduce a breed that has never been tried; better follow than lead until certain of your bearings. . An animal with a defective udder, on the soundness of which the value of a milk cow very largelv depends, should not be bred from again, but discarded as a milker as soon as possible after drying off.