LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 24 September 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On and after Wednesday, October Ist, the extra express train service will be re-started on the Main Trunk line The Bowling Green at the Hot Spi'ings will be ready for play about the middle of next month, Mr A, Becroft was the successful tenderer for enlarging the Foresters' Hall. The usual Euchre Social in connection with St. Matthew's Ladies' Guild takes place next Monday evennig ; all ac invited. An acetlylene gas installation has just been completed for Mr R. Screaton in his business premises, The annual meeting of Heiensville Oiicket Club takes place oh Friday evening in the Library. All member and intending members are requested to attend. The fortnightly meeting of the Town Board, set down for (Saturday last, was adjourned until the first Saturday in October. ' Last year tho lady dancers of Helensville invited their male friends to a Leap Year BalP. This, year they should be tendered a return dance by way of courtesy. What are ouv young men dancers thinking about? A start has been made with the preliminary work for preparing a green for Helensville Uowling Club, by cutting down the scrub. We understand that the excavation ■work will shortly be proceeded with. A Nikau settler states that weasels are killing young lambs in that district, no fewer than eight hrnbs having been found dead one morning by one settler. Each lamb showed signs of having been attacked by a weasel, says the Pahiatua Herald. The progress of the fruit industry is indicated by the fact that cool stores capable of accommodating1 as many as 10,000 cases of apples are. to bo erected in the very near future at Hastings by the Hawke's Bay Fruit, Produce and Coul Storage Company. Sweden is the only country that manufactures paper suitable for wrapping fruit in, and there is a duty of £7 per ton on it. The rebate of £2 per ton British manufactured goods is of little use in this connection, and the Dominion Fruitgrowers' Conference has petitioned the Government to have the dnty removed. During last week (says the South" land Daily News) lbU cases of fruit) mostly oranges, were condemned by the Customs Department and ordered to be shipped back to Australia The reason for condemning the fruit was ..('cause it was not packed according to the regulations as drawn up as a protection against the risk of infection by smallpox. Tho Methodist mission servicos conducted by tho Rev. Strong, of Port Albert, in Helensville.were of a bright and encouraging' order, though not largely attended. It is hoped shortly inaugurate a weekly service for Sunday evening and fortnightly in the morning at Helensville, as a number of now families have lately come to reside in the district. A visitor to Wellington from Kelson says fruit-growing is going ahead in tho latter district. Ho estimates that another 2000 acres are boing added to the I'm it> grow ing area in and around Nelson thia year. He is of opinion that tho market abroad will be able to take more fruit than can bo supplied from here, and predicts that to New Zealand the industry will bo at least as important as the butter industry. Tho Director of Fields aad Experimental Farms Division informs a correspondent that if sand is liablo to heavy drifting, irarram-grass or sea Jyme-fri'ass would be the most suitable. It ordinary sandy waste, lucemehas been found to give good results. Poa pratensis is also very suitable. It is a good plan to sow these with, annual lu^in, as, if not successful, the lupin can be ploughed in as green manure to make humus and provide the necessary plan t> food. Iv also affords shelter to the young- grass. All the seeds abovemontioned can bo procured livm any firm of seedsmen.