THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. Saturday, April 9, 1910 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 249, 9 April 1910, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. Saturday, April 9, 1910 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

♦ - It is not generally known yet, but from April Ist the usual monthly timetable, which has hitherto been sold at one penny, is to be threepence per copy. I Housewives who find the family income unelastic will not be cheered to ' hear that household soap, olive oil, cod liver oil. glycerine, rubber goods, certain drugs and even corn brooms, are to rise in price at an early date. The council of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce has resolved to communicate with all the chambers of commerce ip the North Island with a view of ascertaining whether they are favourable to the formation of 8 league for the purpose of endeavouring to get the whole of the North Island members of Parliament to combine to obtain a measure of fair play for the North Island in the matter of railway management and expenditure generally. The gravel obtained lately and spread on the Whatiwhatihoe road, writes a Pirongia correspondent, is slpendid material, as already it is set, and there is a first rate road where a while, ago it was almost impassable. Mr engineer of the Waitomo was here last jaaait-Aad lTas arranged. I hear, fjM

Before leaving Te Kuiti Mrs Morsewas presented by the Anglican Sunday school children with an electro-plate basket, suitably inscribed, a sugar scoop, a bread fork and a butter knife (the three latter silver and greenstone). Master Rennie Adams made the presentations. Mr White made a few brief remarks on behalf of the children. A well-known Wanganui commercial traveller wired to his firm from Gisborne on Saturday: "See Matthew i., verse 25." On reference the verse was found to read: "And the rain descended, and- the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not." And the traveller added: "Can't get out by land, sea, or air." This rather aptly describes the state of affairs in Gisborne. —"Chronicle." The settlers around Ruanui, near Taihape, had a meeting the other day to protest again ?t Californian thistle heing classed a3 a noxious weed. They hold that stock will eat it if grass is scarce and that it is impossible to eradicate it. They are petitioning for the Act to be repealed. The Departmental inspector (Mr Deene), said he did not think a proper attempt to deal with Californian thistle had been made in the district. He recommended the use of the mower. As long as the Act remained in force he intended to enforce it. From all parts of the Waikato district reports are to the effect that the dairying season has been a record one. In addition to the very favourable season experienced, some credit is given to the fact that dairy farmers are culling their herds very consistently, with the result that greatly increased returns are being secured. It is expected that most of the creameries in the Cambridge district will close down at the end of May, and re-open in August. A pamphlet giving full directions as to how to obtain State-guaranteed loans is in course of preparation. The procedure under the Act is very complicated, and it is felt that without the pamphlet mistakes would often be made by inexperienced officers of local bodies, especially in remote parts of the country where no skilled advice is available, such mistakes would involve delays, irritation and expense The pamphlet will indicate step by step all that is required to be done in order to secure a loan. The intimation that an open season for one month, from May 14th, has been sanctioned for cock pheasants, quail, black swans, and gray ducks, is in a sense satisfactory to sportsmen and others who protested against this season being a close one, but the arrangement as it now stands is open to one objection. Previously it has been the rule to open the shooting season on • May let, and that date has now become the recognised date for sportsmen to have their first bang at feathered game. The postponement of ths opening to May 14th i-4 certain to lead to some confusion. One address was made to do duty for two presentations to his Excellency the Governor, says the North Otago Times. In a township not one hundred miles from Oamaru Lord Plunket was presented with the usual address, and made his usual reply. After the formal proceedings the gentleman who had made the presentation asked his Excellency to allow him to retain possession of the address, as intended to present it again the following day in a different part of the district. Lord Plunket laughingly complied, and thus the address 'fJ&S-Vwice presented and twice replied to. The details supplied by the Department of Agriculture show that the value of New Zealand's principal products exported last month was well ahead of that for the corresponding month of 1909, the amount for March, 1910, being £2,669,221, and that for March, 1909, £2,389,652, an increase of £279,569. Taking the two years ended March, the position is as under: —l9lO, £20,048,449; 1909, £15,699,046; increase, £4,349,4031 The slaughtermen and floor hands at the Southdown Freezing Works, who went on strike the other day, have been seived with summonses charging them with striking. The summonses were issued at the instance of the Labour Department, and the cases will come on at the Otahuhu Court, before Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., on Wednssday. In all, nine slaughtermen and 12 assistants have been cited. In each case the full penalty will be asked for. At the first meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board, elected under the new elcetive system,' Mr J. Fisher, chair-' man of the old Board,, was re-elected to that position, and Mr W. I. Cpnradi was rc-appointed to the secretaryship. It was resolved that the time had arrived for the appointment of a permanent medical assistant to Dr Douglas, and applications are to be invited accordingly. Mr Campbell Johnstone, one of the Raglan County's representatives, was present at the meeting, the other, Mr Worsp, sent an apology for non-attendance. Patients' fees to this hospital for the year ended March 31st, amounted to £lß2l 10s 4d, or about £7OO more than for the previous year, and constituting a record. Mr Sedgwick, who is making a tour of the Dominion in advocacy of a scheme for emigration of the ycuth of the Old Country to these shores, addressed the members of the Auckland A. and P. Association yesterdaj' afternoon. He said England was offering young strong and versatile men. If the farmesr would co-operate with the Home authorities it would not be long before thj3 right stamp of men were qoming, The feeling of the meeting was favourable to the scheme and speakers advocated the Farmers' Union being asked to assjst. Mr Sedgwick said the Distress Committees in England had 100,000 boys who could be assisted by the Local Government Board. 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