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Levin Daily Chronicle, 19 April 1917, Page 1

Greengages.—Bs per half case. Grapes.—ls Gd per lb. Nectarines.—6s per half case. Plums.—3s 6d per half case. .Blackberries.— 3d per lb. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberres. —Is 6d punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Pears.—Local W.B.C. choice dessert 3s 6d per half ease. Medium 2s 6d per half case. Pollard— £7 15s to £8 per ton. Black ber j ies.—3Jd per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per J-case. Honey.—6d per lb. Hecawas.—ls 6d par lb. Fungus od to 6d per lb/" Walnuts.—3d lb. Dressed pork—7o's to 90's, 6d to 6jd; 90's to 100's, 6d; Baconers, sd; Choppers (heavy), 3d to 4d per lb. Our weekly pork sales held 'each Wednesday evenings or Thursday Thursday. Pigs should arnivo on noopi. "Blue Bell" Arsenate of Lead.—At list rates. "Blue Bell" Lime Sulphur.—2s per gallon, in casks. Vapourite I'Strawson's). —Kills all soil insects, 25s per cwt.; 15s per .-cwt Basic Slag.—£7 '10s per ton. Superphosphate..—£7 5s per ton. Waingawa Manures and W.M.E. Coy's, as per* price list. Tea.—s and 101b boxes, le 8d to 2s 2d j Chests, Is 6d to 2s lb. .JEW—MBM Farm Labour « IS THERE A SCARCITY (Farmers' Union Advocate.) 'Plle above question would ialmost appear to bo beyond the asking; but Mr Evans, the chairman of a Southern Military Board, has deolared that a. personal friend of his has travelled from Invercargill to Cliristchurch offering his qualified services as a farm warker and lias found no one in need. Other instances have been quoted to show that applications for ploughmen are responded to by the score. Yet farmers all over the country are complaining that the country is being depleted of labour and production is suffering. It is evident that there is exaggeration on one side or otlied, probably on both. Only exact enquiry can prove which ; but the statement made by Mr Evans, who in his official capacity should be speaking with a sense of responsibility, should not be left where it is. In justice to the farmer the expedience of Mr Evanis' personal friend should be investigated. Candidly t we could not accept the statement without some proof. Mr David Jones has given an explanation of the numerous applications for the position of ploughmen which might reasonably be taken as correct; but even in this case it should not be difficult to make investigations. The question is not merely one of veracity. If no enquiry is made Military Boards will naturally assume that there is no scarcity and will continue to send farm labourers into camp in the belief that their services are not essential to the maintenance of production. We have no desire to claim exemption for farm workers as a class; but we wish to understand fully whether it is more important to send these men away as fighters than to keep them here as producers. We quite .realise that the time has probably not yet arrived when all the country labour that can be spared has been taken. We recognise that many more will have to go; but the time lias come to consider how that labour it to be replaced, and as that cannot be done in a day or two we think a large number of these men should be- temporarily exempted, in order that the National Efficiency Boards may state definitely .'how labour stands in regard' to production l . German Village ❖ ANGRY AT WOMEN IN TROUSERS. (London Times' Correspondent. Amsterdam, Jan. 28. The Munich military commander has says the Berliner Tageblatt, issued the following order:— Tlio appearance of many ladies in Garmisch-Parten-kirchen (a favourate nesort in the Bavarian Alps) lias provoked among the population of that place lively anger and indignation. Anger was particularly directed against those ladies, not seldom of ripe age, who, without sporting reasons, continually show themselves in public in trousers. It happened that ladies* in this costume visited church during service. Such behaviour is detestible to the homely, serious feeling of the mountain population. In consequence thereof many disagreeable scenes occurred in the streets. The authorities, clergy, and private persons approached the military authority with a request for the help of the latter, who has authorized the local authority at Garmisch to proceed energetically, is necessary, witli police measures of compulsion against the nuisance. jiEGTN TREATMENT AT ONCE. Have you a weak throat P Is so, you cannot be too careful. You cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to another and the last is always the harder to cure. If you will take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the outset you will bt* saved much trouble, . Advt