WAIKATO NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 206, 8 November 1909, Page 5

WAIKATO NOTES.

♦ • ■- - Own Correspondent. Mr Wesley Spragg says that the production of butter in the Auckland province shows an increase, for so far en ! in the season, of from 2& to 33 1-3 ' per cent, over the same j»riod of last y.-:ir. Part of the increase is through the new country taken op, and he predicts the production will be doubled within four-to six years, if att goes well. This is very gratifying know!- ; rdge for those of us living ia Waikato. I never forget that we live by the products* of the soil, and of those prolikU's butter is eur teadingone. Wool in about & to 7| percent, lower <:.>. r hoth crossbreds and merinos, as P L - : r--r>:»r.-.J with the closing rates of m,- i:»Hh sales. Merinos ware admit- .[ y '.on high, and had to come lower. , -:!i:;h.vi3 have evidently fallen in r :n P athy and must rise again, if ; ;, v ,wi! calculations can be said to ,r.,vi<msuch variations in prices. " The Waikato A. and P. Association's Ht.h annual show takes ptace on the 17th and IHth November and the entries, which closed on the 30th October show a high level of excellence and interest. There is a fatting off m numbers in some classes ©wing to the Government farm only sending for exhibition, a/id Mr Wan. Taylor, of Hreenhill also reducing bis •ntae*. i It will be remembered Mr Taylor , suffered seriously at the hands of the Railway Department last year, and he there and then decided to dispesre j his valuable stock. : A floral fete is to be hetd in th* : [.ake Domain on December Bth in aid of the Town band funds There is to bo a procession of decorated vehicles and various competitions will alsa be The Boy Scouts are sending two ; teams to Palmerston North to compete m the military competitions there, j I noticed Sergeant Mitchell busily exercising several of the boys the other afternoon. It is an excellent movement. The boys are trained to be smart, intelligent, observant lads. and a trained scout knows a good deal more than th« average man does about estimating heights and distances, cooking under difficulties and such practical matters likely to be of use in warfare. •»*♦*»» tt ia understood that Mr R. C. Alton of Piako wilt eon-test tb» Waikato . seat at the next general election and « * to start on his political campaign at once. He ia said to be a supporter of the Reform party. . . The Winter Show Association intends to hold competitions in farmers Stays. Substantial easb pries will be awarded, one of She condition being that the produce shown is to be grown on the farms of competitors. Two WaUaato exhibitors gained first prize at the Parmersten •*»«► Mr E. Allen of Pukekura, for a boll of any age and Messrs Goodwin Bros, for a cow of any age. Alex. Ross Anderson, bailing from South Africa, got work with Mr J. Teddy. Jnr.. of Ohaupo some tim« ago. He only wanted colonial experience, and was going to boy a farm. He got £,-,0 by false pretences from Mr Teddy

£« from Mr Wilson of Ohaup© and JTS from Mr J. Bailey of Hamittcn. He was arrested, pleaded qullty and committal for sentence to Auckland. lames Geddis of Auckland, alleged to have assaulted and rdbbed a lady on the Onehunga road was arrested tb« orh«»r day under circumstances wbten reflect in moat creditable fashion upon the Waikato police. Constables Bourne »f Hamilton asrf McNamara «. C f?* briditf had bet" in formed of that be bwUisappeared into the country sometor" -oo ■■ ....■■ -:'*4s£dL tl « f^P €et about ■;- m.1.-:4 outside C-'ddi.-i was brought up in court at r.xmbridge and remanded to Auckland BJK (nr trial.' the Prime Minister baa made u'n important statement in the Howe -.vhi-.li will result in Waikato developing this valuable industry. A bonus will orobably be granted by the Got-•mrm-nt for each ton of beet sugar > u j iii irovtded the necessary 4 <■ , , ' i our especially the fat- ' y mind the weakest . . -.i m** < - an be provided ir Ktpress thinks no l m j ' atT'-;'i to grant the

sob required to provide ft boons for every child born, as it woold require to £» a substantial •mount to be of any assistance to poor mothers. But •by should not Friendly Societies do something io this way? They give grants when members die or are ill or incapacitated. Why not when a birth takes place? If parents coold rely open a sum of £lO to £2O at sorb critical times as this it woold do more to fill the cradles than all the diatribes from pulpit, press or pot itieans ever ottered.