King Country Chronicle Wednesday, October 4, 1911.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 401, 4 October 1911, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, October 4, 1911.

Tin.' fniloivim; tenders were received for the Horou/:!) Council's new buildings •• T. A, Williams .£1262, Jensen .£l27d. ,T. k. Smith £1277, G. Hitchcock \V. Kullcrton ,£1340, A J. O'Kepan XKUid. 1). Fletcher .£1394. Mr Williams" tender was accepted. ! Asr Graham has, in our advertisement columns to-day. catalogue of his Saturday's Mart sale. We note amongst many Jim s purebred from choice strains white lojrhorns and wyanJ dottes. I" months old cr.clcerels, vegc- [ tables. furniture anil many sundries, ! also a nve pony. ! Mr K. H, 11 ardy has just acquired i a vi rv Sire yearling .Jersey bull for {his Waiteli place, from the Ruakura | i >,jii nan ntal farm at Hamilton. Ho | has been making extensive improveI mcnts at his Wnilcti farm, and has ' 1 -U> yearlimrs r.jiii other cattle on the ; place, whet<• he will he milking by : mschincrv sex t ; easoj;. j ! The opening env ef Te Kuiti Tenniff Cinh is !e he la Id on ,Saturday next., j ' rhe courts have teen thoroughly overJ hauled and shosid he in pood order for jt he opening. The bains of the club l have i.inniy consent eii in provide j nftcrnoon tea. I; n expected that a ' large number will alien,?. and viuitorffi j a re speeia 1!y invited. 'i'he ntir.fY.ll tor Te Kuiti during: | September 1H was as follow: llth r i . 11 ! inches; i:::h, !. it 1 ; 1 'lth, .55; I i.-ih. r,th. .ui ; 1 Nth, ,40; 19th, .(',7 : :'eih. .i : :!i'.th, .25; 27th, 0.7; I'Sth. :" l !!i. .<' 7 ; total )!. 70 inches on 1L! dayr;. "i'he rainfall for September. PU n , was t'.'jn inches on 14 days. An important committee meeting: of the King Country A eel imatisationi Society will he held in Mr Musden'w office on Cmrsday evening next. Members oj' i-omnnlt.ee are urgently requested t«> attend. Fire insurance rates differ tremendously according to whether brick or wooden premises are used. A local tradesman, paying en about £ 1000*8 worth of stock, muis that., now he occupies a luick building, he pays lis (>d per cent., against nearly 50g per cent, in the old wooden shop. This moans a saving of six to eight shillings a week m inr.uranco premiums, a consider-a.t.ion worth calculating on, when an option of brick or wood is open. In reply 'o a number of requests the Premier s..yr he will endeavour be present to ;nrn the first sod of the railway at Ongarue, and will let Mr Jenninp.s know when it is to be done, which wiii be . oon after Parliament nses, as lie '-anno! p.ei away before. Wr A. I isssman. who has had a long experience With the diseases of cattle, quotes in smother column a very strong" testimonial from Mr D. Kemp o! i 'amhr i. who saved a fifty-guinea mare Cnongh using Mr

The additions to„ Te Kuiti post office were commenced on Monday, Mr J. Mclndoe being the contractor. The new portion is intended for an instrument room, a telephone room and additional space in the mail rootn. About twenty more private boxes will be added, also; and the private box lobby extended, making the total number of boxes not far short of one hundred.

Mr E. C. Shepherd has' been visiting the Ohura during the past week in the interests of the Waikato Farmers* Co-operative Bacon Co.. giving addresses and information on the bacon industry. Meetings were held at Ongarue, Matiere, iSliho Niho and Mangaroa, and a considerable number of shares in the new company were taken up.

Mr Jennings has asked the Minister of Lands whether provision can be made, by sum 3 of money being placed on the Estimates, to fence scenic reserves adjoining settlers' section®., and received the reply that this is a matter that has been attended to by the passing of section 5 of the Scenery Preservation Amendin°nt Act, 1910, and by the placing of items on the appropriations of the Department of Lands as well as in the Preservation Account for the past financial year. These votes are being continued, and will appear in the Estimates for the current year.

One of the Rev. Mr Fee's hearers at Woodville the other night inquired anxiously if he was a "Wowser" Mr Fee said yes, he was, and would explain the origin of the word. It originated when somebody had tried to say "rouser," but being three sheets in the wind, like his friend, had been unable to get his tongue round ihe "r" in rouser, and they would find tbat he and those associated with him against the drink traffic were rousers, and next November they would rouse the traffic out of existence.

Mr Jennings has asked the Minister of Defence whether any applications for a portion of the sum of £IOOO voted on last year's Estimates for repairing and renovating old soldiers' graves have been sent in by any boroughs or local bodies, and was told provision was made on last year's defence appropriations for the sum of £2OO only for the renovation of military graveyards and headstones. Of this sum £lO was expended. No applications have been received by the Defence Department from boroughs or local bodies in this connection.

Among those who profess to see some cause for anxiety in the shrinKage of values of experts is the editor of the, New Zealand Trade Review. "As far as can be seen at present," states the Review, "our exports will be approximately £2,000,u00 behind the previous ceas m, while, en the other hand, our imports continue to grow steadily. A year ago the excess of exports over imports was close on £6,000,000, while for the year to June 30th last, the excess was some £2,500,000, and the continued decline in exports makes it appear that this balance will be reduced at the close of the current quarter. It is impossible to arrive at an exact balance in these things owing to the effect of loan money coming fn in the form of goods, but from the very high total reached by our imports it would appear that a measure of caution is advisable on the part of our importers." Mr Jennings has asked the Prime Minister whether he will propose an alteration of the law in tue direction that Maori leases of land to Europeans, suitable for closer settlement, dairying, etc., may be secured for such purposes, as blocks of land suitable for dairying purposes in various parts of the North Island, particularly at Kai Iwi and in the King Country, are about falling in, and some such necessary step as indicated by tne question is imperative, so as to make co-operative dairy factories more successful by increasing the number of suppliers. Mr Jennings received the xeply that when any amendments are being made in the Act the matter will receive consideration.

'l' am afraid your farmers in the Njith Island, or a good many of them at any rate," said a South Island visitor to a MaiiaWatu Standard representative in the course of a casual conversation, "are not as much attached to their district as we in the south are. I see clearing sales of stockalmost every day in the newspapers, the owner having sold his farm. I hear of a great many Taranaki farmers who have sold out and gone to Waikato or to the King Country. The Southland farmers often go up north jn gearch of suitable farms, or more suitable farms, than those which they already have. But in nearly every case they corns back, more than convinced that there is no district like Southland after all, and the moat of them acknowledge that farming in Southland is superior that in any ether district which they had visited. In the North Island there is too much swapping of farms for other farms of town properties. I don t care to see much of that kind of business." Mr Jenning3 has asked the Native Minister whether he can take steps to prevent further Moari leases being allowed within boroughs like Te Kuiti, Taumarunui and other Maori townships, unless ciear titles are first sully' settled and approved surveys made of areas leased in such towns. In the immediate future grave complications will arise owing to private individuals selling town leaseholds of native lands when such leaseholds have pot had titles adjusted. Sir James Carroll said if the question is one dealing with issue of leases by the District Maori Land Board, no difficulty arise. The note attached, however, indicates that it refers to lessees dealing with their leasehold rights of ■sale by way of private transaction after leases have issued. If this is the position, complication cannot arise, as the ioard would not approve of a transfer of portions of leases unless on a scheme previously approved by the board, and the plan of the sub-division being deposited in the Land Transfer iPffice,