THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. MONDAY, DEC. 20, 1909 DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 218, 20 December 1909, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. MONDAY, DEC. 20, 1909 DISTRICT PARS.

The public generally, and particularly the outback settlers, should note that the bank holidays at Te Kuiti for Christmas and New Year will be Saturday, December 25th, Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th, Saturday January Ist, and Monday January 3rd. Messrs Larritt and Young of Te Kuiti have kindly donated prizes for a race to be confined to suppliers of the Piopio co-operative Dairy Factory at the forthcoming Settlers' picnic. The first prize will be a cream can and the second a steel milk bucket. This race was inadvertently omitted from the printed programme. At the breaking up picnic at Te Kuiti school on Friday last a boy named Tom Hetet met with an unfortunate accident. He wa3 competing in the high jemp when he slipped and fell on his arm sustaining a fracture of the limb below the elbow. Mr Power, the headmaster, rendered first aid and the lad was taken to Doctor Fullerton for attention.

We are pleased to hear that at the University Examinations held in Auckland last month, Mr H. O. Robinson, Clerk to Mr H. Hine, Solicitor, Te Kuiti, passed the First Section of the examinations for a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. At the Mangapehi sports on Saturday last a youth named Enoch Horshall whilst competing in the hop, step and jump event, bad the misfortune to rupture his hamstring muscle, He was brought to Te Kuiti on the goods train on Saturday evening and attended to by Dr Fullerton. The patient is progressing favourably and hopes to be able to return to his home very shortly. Te Kuiti has, in the past, been very free from deprivations by members of the light fingered gentry,but on Thursday night last the premises of Mr Rouse, tailor of Tc Kuiti,were entered and two new suits taken therefrom. The matter is in the hands of the police and it is to be hoped tbat the guilty one will he speedily brought to book.

Mr H. E. Rountree, representing the Auckland Piano Company, will be in Te Kuiti and Otorobanga districts until Decebmer 23. Mr Rountree' firm are direct importers of pianos and organs by the leading English and Foreign makers. His firm are prepared to give easy terms and to allow a liberal discount for cash. They will also allow full value for old instruments taken in exchange. Letters addressed to "Kelvin House," Te Kuiti, or to Mr C. Johnston, Otorobanga, will find Mr Rountree until the 23rd inst.

The Minister for Lands was asked on Wednesday by Mr Jennings whether he will give instructions that where timber on lands belonging to the Crown have been removed it shall be an imperative condition that such lands be grassed as soon as possible, in order to prevent the spread of noxious weeds Mr Jennings received the following reply:—"This is the course now followed, and Commissioners of Crov. n lands have been instructed that, in cases where timber on Crown lands has been removed, and the land is in such a condition that grasses can be sown upon it, the matter should be at once brought under the notice of the Minister, so that seed may be supplied." Some of the most advanced thinkers of the age are declaring that agriculture furnishes the only true basis of education. The Mississippi Experiment Station is built on that line. But what a surprise it is to find this condition of things in a State where organised agriculture has never been strong. It may well cause the farmers of more favoured States to look about them. Think of the splendid effect such a course of training will have on these Mississippi boys in after years. —"Hoard's Dairyman." The "World's Work," says there is a county in tlie State of Mississippi, the only county in the nation in fact, "where practically every white boy of school age is working a piece of ground with his own bands as a part of his education —working it, too, under proper direction, so that what he does has a definite educational value; working it, too, so as to-produce a better yield at a lower cost than the land ever knew before."