The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, March 7, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 963, 7 March 1911, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, March 7, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Fox Ton, not being on the main railway line, is unable to pay its respects to and deputationise noteable personages as they pass along. Our turn will come later on, however, when the Wellington-Auck-land express takes a more direct route between Eevin and Marton or Greatford. We cannot help feeling a little out of it just now, as we read of deputations having waited upon Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon. Dr. Findlay, the Dominion’s representatives at the Coronation of King George V., as they passed through the country by rail. Side-tracked Foxton nevertheless endorses the good words expressed by those who have had an opportunity of personally conveying them to the Premier and Dr. Findlay and wishes the peoples’ representatives God speed and a safe return. The party left Auckland last evening by the Victoria for Sydney en route to London. The Dominion will be well and worthily represented both at the Coronation and Imperial Conference.

Carterton now boasts the largest inland swimming baths in New Zealand, viz., 50 yards long by 75 feet wide. The baths cost ,£285. Of this sum the Borough Council contributed ,£too, and the people found the rest. There had been given in addition quite .£25 worth of voluntary labour. Our Carterton contemporary says that the popularity of the scheme was evidenced by the fact that as soon as the baths were available the people, especially the boys and girls, took to the water like ducks, and already some fifty boys and girls and some adults had learned to swim in the baths. Carterton’s population is about equal to Foxton, with an area in favour of the former. It possesses a fine water and drainage service—which cost ,£18,900 ; and it possesses municipal gas works. Like Foxton, it is not richly endowed. It has a reserve of 102 yi acres, which returns ,£57 8s rod per annum, and qr acres, which bring in ,£4l x6s per annum. The reason why we draw these comparisons is obvious. Unlike Carterton, Foxton has at its back door a splendid river, portion of which could be fenced In and used as a public swimming

baths. The cost of erection ot necessary dressing sheds, platforms, etc., would not amount to much, and we believe the public, if properly canvassed, would give the needful to provide Foxtou with necessary swimming baths. Here’s an opening for some patriotic citizen to make a name for himself.

A com' of the London Daily Mail just to hand coulains an advertisement of New Zealand butter and cheese occupying the whole of the front page, necessarily a very costly advertisement. The North and South Islands are reproduced, and the leading factories marked. In this particular Shannon is not included. The reading matter says; “The most wonderful agricultural development of our time is that ot New Zealand, whence last year’s imports into England amounted to the huge total of 16,500 tons of butter and 25,000 tons ot cheese, of a quality which is unsurpassed in any country of Europe. The industry is under the strictest Government supervision and the question of purity is beyond suspicion.’’ It is also mentioned that the Koupokonui cheese factory, with an output of over 2500 tons, is the largest in the world, and that the Mangatoki and several other butter factories exceed 500 tons annually. The advertisement was inserted by Messrs J. J. Lonsdale and Co.