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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 472, 8 June 1912, Page 4

A highly attractive display of crockery, ornaments, and assorted fancy work is on view at Mrs Mac Donald's, Rora street, Te Kuiti. Attention is drawn to the advertisement calling a meeting of the Te Kuiti Football Club for Tuesday evening next. As important business is to bo discussed a good attendance is requested. Mr Farrell, architect to the Auckland Education Board, and Mr Barriball, member of the board, visited Te Kuiti on Thursday, and together with members of the Borough Council, inspected the school ground with a view to arranging matters in connection with the school entrance. The meeting of the King Country Acclimatisation Society called for Thursday evening last was so poorly attended that it had to be adjourned, a quorum not being present. Another meeting will be called at an early date when it is hoped that a large number of those interested will attend. The recent bad weather haß had the effect of making the unmetalled roads of the district in a very bad state. The portion of the road to the racecourse at Te Kumi is practically impassable and the journey to Oparure is in consequence an undertaking fraught with danger. An urgent requirement in conn«Or tion with country schools is a building for the housing of the saddles of those children who are compelled to ride to school. At the last meeting of the Te Kuiti School Committee it was decided to request the board of Education to subsidise an amount of £5 for the purpose of erecting a shed in which to keep the saddles. The establishing of a High School at Te Kuiti was referred to at the meeting of the School Committee on Thursday evening by several of tfte members and it was decided to keep the matter steadily in view and do all that wng possible .to have the school established. A meeting of all those interested in the formation of a Reform League is to be held in the Municipal Hall on Thursday evening next. Mr Lindergrocn, the organiser of the Reform Party, will he present, and a good attondnneo is expected, in consequence (if (be local Parliament sitting on the sane evening, the meeting is called for V o'clock in order to avoid clash- [ iug wiin (be Debating Society's fix- ; tore any morn than is possible. All endeavour was made to have the meeting ii.Ncd for some other evening, but as Mr l.indorgreen's engagement prevented bis attendance on another occasien. ii- was decided to make the arranmononis (it in as conveniently es possible with the local fixture. , '''he bslanee-sheef of the Bank of Nov '.'.esbmu for (he year ended March -Ist Issl. ebows a profit of £396,182, compared wr!h .i'.'bs;,, ;»7() j„ the previous' year. From (bis has to be dense! Ed interest on guaranteed stock -!'i<i,(Min, .•-:,,:! reduction of premises and furniture .>.'::;. 00, (i. The directory propose to [uiy o further dividend anfe. . bonuses. making altogether 15 p^ A ' c,,;i! " ;ui(! -'"''bi.ditii io the reserve fund, makme: it .'.' 1,::oo. (loo and carry .forward a-id.OUO. presented by taking lonking's i.inse.,l Kimilsioii on the first sign oi ,i cohi. Obtainable everywhere.

The amateur boxing championships, under the auspices of the Waikato Boxing Association, which will be held on July 3rd, at Hamilton, should provide some highly interesting bouts. In addition to the championship events there will be competitions for territorials and novices. Entries close on June 27th, with the secretary, Mr W. Waters, at Hamilton from whom all particulars are obtainable.

An anxious inquiry regarding the fate of the Governor's Speech delivered at the opening of the short session of Parliament was made at the meeting addressed by the Hon. A. M. Myers at Auckland on Thursday evening. "Will the Speech from the Throne be thrown over by the present Government?" the Minister was asked. But Mr Myers was not prepared to give away the secret. "Many people would like to know that," was his reply.

The question of child labour in the country districts was referred to by Mr W. 0. Lamb, president of the Auckland Country Teachers' Association, in the course of his evidence before the Education Commission on

Thursday. His association had instituted inquiries, and had found that country children often suffered considerable hardships. In some cases they worked at home for seven hours and then travelled several miles to school, and arrived there in a jaded condition. The result of inquiries showed tha twhen such children reached the school they were not in the receptive condition necessary to receive instruction. It was not considered a hardship for children to milk two or three cows but in some cases the children were subjected to real conditions of slavery. The Country Teachers' Association hoped that with the advent of the milking machine the evil to a large extent would be removed.

Discoveries of ru3t-resistng cereals are of considerable importance to agricultural districts, in which the experiments prove successful. An achievement of the Ruakura Farm of Instruction, as displayed at the Waikato Winter Show, is therefore of interest. Four years ago a single head of what was claimed to be a restresisting oat was sown, and further sowings continned of the seed which it produced. The net result to date is seven full sheaves of healthy oats, together ~ " : -fh 16 J bushels of seed. These oa.ij-'have been quite free from the effect of rust all along the line of experiment, which fact demonstrates their value for cultivation in the Waikato district. This object lesson is only one of many valuable hints which are'given to farmers per medium of agricultural shows. "The Dairy farmers' Gold Mine"— "The King of all Fodder Plants"— "The Great Soil Renewer"—"The New Sugar Plant"—these are the striking headlines which marked the special exhibit of lucerne in the Ruakura court at the Waikato Winter Show. Not only is lucerne highly beneficial to the ground in a fertilising sense, but the fact has been established that syrup made from green lucerne contains more sugar than maple or cane. One acre of lucerne will deposit in the soil fertilising matter equal to 30 cwt. of nitrate of soda in a period of nine years, and this, of course, without extra costto the gruwer. Lucerne is a favourite crop at Ruakura.