NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1984, 31 May 1919, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

An original note was struck by a delegate at the Congregational Assembly in Melbourne recently. Ho said the churches should “keep more to the truth.” In a hymn, he continued, they sang “Take my silver and my gold, and not a mite will I withhold.” What was really meant was, “Take the mite and I will hold all the rest.” Such hymns, he said, should he altered and made more like those sang by the little children. Also, the delegate added, there should be “more smiles from the ministers.” He suggested Unit whenever a preacher saw a member of his congregation asleep lie should call for a hymn. Another delegate interjected that “the services would be all livnms.”

The profit to bo made by poultry farming in those days when such excellent prices are being paid for eggs was revealed in a statement

made, by Mr Nixon, of Auckland, who acted as judge at the Onehunga Poultry Club’s annual show. Mr Nixon cited the case of a duck tanner of Avondale, whose sale of ducks’ eggs were averaging £3 per day. From this sum £1 had to be deducted for food, the net profit being £2. Ho found that where onethird of the feed given to ducks comprised green feed that very satisfactory laying results were obtained. Duck eggs at present arc selling as high as 3d each.

The great demand for coal at the present time, ami the difficulty experienced in securing a sufficient quantity to meet the requirements of the Dominion, have caused expert a I tent ion to lie drawn to very large untapped supplies in the King Country. Mr Loekie Gannon, civil engineer, of Auckland, Mr \\. Duncan, also of Auckland, and Mr Robert Young, were in To Kuiti recently on behalf of a syndicate which proposes (0 exploit the new field, which is located on the Tahaia property of Mr Young, formerly a settler of Otorohanga, but now a resident of Walmria (states the Tc Kuiti correspondent of the New Zealand Herald), Mir Young staled that lie made the discovery five or six years ago, but did not then at Inch very

great importance to it. Mr Gannon said that the coal outcropped in a number of places, and the discovery was an exceedingly promising one. The syndicate has had men on the site for the past three weeks engaged in sinking boros in various parts of the field, and the depths reached varied from 4()fl. to 60ft. In every instance the bores revealed (ho presence of coal. Part of the coalfield is on a sloping hill, hut 1 the. greater portion is on the flat, and in all respects the site lends itself to convenient and economic working. Surveys and levels in connection with a proposed tramway have already been made. The precise locality of the find is at Mangamutn, near Tahaia, approximately halfway between Oterohanga and Hangaliki, and the tramway is to run along eight miles of perfectly level country to Ilangatiki station.