LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 September 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An impounding notice is inserted in our advertising columns.

If the local Tennis Club intends to make an asphalt court this season the workshould.be put in hand without further delay.

The Auckland visitor who lias been isolated in a tent on the Pipitiwai road for the past month was allowed to dapart last Thursday.

Mr W. Campbell, a fruit farmer of Matakana, considers the local fruit farming1 country has splendid resources and will be heard of to great advantage.

The new steamer being built bythe T£aipara Shipping <Jo. for the Tangiteroa trade is now well in hand. The machinery is to arrive this month, and it is expected to have her launched, early in October.

, An evangelistic mission will shortly be held by the Methodists in their various district churches. The dates for Helensville aie September 15 and 16, and for Woodhill the 17th. The Rev C. Strand will be inissioner.

A few small farms handy to Helensville can be arranged to suit clients, locality particularly suitable for fruitgrowing.—W. H. Hutchinson, Land Agent.

Various prosecutions, it is understood, are to take place in connection with the breaking of the quarantine regulations enforced by the Health Department in various parts of the Auckland Province.

A return presented to Parliament the other day shows that the increase of sheep in the Dominion for the year ending April 30 was 441.657. In the North Island the increase was 527-35G and a decrease of 85,699 in South Island.

From a notice inserted in our columns it will be seen that the Gano Milking Machine Co. is prepared to indemnify customers against any othor companies, claims re infringement of patent rights. The Gane Company intends to take action against the L. K. G. Company for infringement of their reioaser patent.

" He extends you the compliments of the season, sits on the front doorstep, has a cup of tea, and then departs. Next day you find that your valuation has been bumped up £5 per acre. " This wap the complaint of delegate at the Oounties' Conference, referring to Government valuers.

The District Health officer (Dr Meinhold) informs us that not only Holensville, but Te Pua, Parkhurst, Makarau and other adjacent districts are quite free from the smallpox epidemic, and that anyone who states otherwise is in error.

A recent visitor to Northern districts, who passed through Helensville. had on him a suspicious-looking rash, but cleared out very hurriedly when he found it would probably mean isolation in a tent for him. It was stated that his intention was to get to Point Chevalier, but he did not arrive there. If the Health Department1 could trace his movements (which is very doubtful seeing that the Department has a crocodile motion j there would probably be a stiff fme added to the Government's funds.

The Director of Orchards, Gardens, and Apiaries Division informs a correspondent that (a) Bordeaux mixture made with soda is of little or no value as a spray for fruit trees ; (L) Vermptite is not considered as effective as the bordeaux mixture, for sprayingl fruit-trees ; Apparently insufficient lime or soda has been used in the preparation of the Bordeaux mixture for the spraying of the potatoes. A test with litmus paper to indicate when sufficient lime or soda has been used to neutralize the action of the bluestone will, obviate the difficulty ; (d) The fact that gum exudes from, peachtrees after budding usually indicates that the buds have been inserted too early in the season.

The dead body of Virgin, who disappeared after the Kaimata tragedy of August 14, was found in the Manganui River, about half a mile below the bridge from which. "Virgin w<is supposed to have thrown himself. Kemit to the Farmers' Union Cons ference from Auckland branch: — " That the Railway Department be approached witb a view to getting excursion rates; from any station to any station during a period in the winter for the benefit of farmers, who as a rule, cannot avail themselves of the cheap fares in the summer months. There will be a total eclipse of the moon on the night of September 15, as follows:—First contact oi moon with edge of oarfh's shadow, lOhr 23min p.m. Beginning of total phase, llhr 31min. Middle of eclipse, September 16, Ohr 18min. End of total eclipse, September 16, lhr 6min. Last contact with the shadow, September 6.2 hr Umin, " The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture (Canada) recently sent out the following Press.bulletin:— Have . you a dairy cow? If this question were asked our farmers to-day, 95 per cent of them would have to answer in the negative. A dairy, cow is not merely a female bovin milking from one to three thousand pounds a year with a fat test of from 2 to 3 per cent. An animal of this description • gives milk ' and that is all. A dairy cow

gives all the way from 6,000 to 30,000 pounds, testing from 3 to 5 per cent of butter fat and she does it with ease for she is professional at the busiaess. Quality counts. If you get a good dairy cow, you will have something to be proud of. . If you are interested in dairying—keep dairy cows."