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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2292, 21 June 1921, Page 3

A leading farmer at Eltham, in the course of a conversation with a reporter, said that lie was firmly of opinion that within the next two years there would be a tremendous shortage of steers in Taranaki. At present thousands of bull calves were being destroyed, also a large percentage of heifer calves, ruder present conditions it did not pay to rear them, and the inevitable shortage must result. TOWN HALL PICtURES. WEDNESDAY! WEDNESDAY! The sweetest story ever told of mother love: “MOTHER O’ MINE.’’ With .song effect. Also “King ot the Circus,” with Eddie l’olo and Brownie the Century wonder dog. Usual prices, (id & 1/1, children 3d.

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! Positively last appearance "f----*DRIVER. DRIVER. A Sack full of Ghosts —something new. Also “The Marriage of Convenience,” starring Catherine Calvert, Prices, 2/- & 1/-, phis tax.

METHODIST CiJERCH. METHODIST CENTENARY RALLY. T-NIGHT! AT 7.30 Speaker: l!ev. 0. S. COOK. Anthem -by Choir. Collection for Centenary Fund. FOXTON PATRIOTIC SOCIETY. REGISTER OF RETURNED SOLDIERS.' /V REGISTER of all Foxton Returned Soldiers is being compiled. and all returned soldiers who left Foxton to proceed to the Iron! are requested to communicate with the undersigned,* in order that the required particulars as to service, etc., may be furnished. Discharge and pension certificates will require to be produced when registration is being effected. Win. TRUEMAN, Secretary. THANKS. MRS. F. ROBINSON and family extend their sincere thanks to all who forwarded messages of sympathy and 11 oral tributes, in connection with their recent bereavement. MOUTOA DRAINAGE BOARD. NOTICE is hereby'given that this Board intends, at a meeting to be held at the Office of the Board, on SATURDAY, June 25th, 1921, to. make and levy, under the provisions of “The Rating Act, 1908,” and “The Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1908,” and any amendments thereto, a General Rate of nine-sixteen-ths of a penny in the £ upon the rateable (Unimproved) value of all rateable properties appearing in the Valuation Roll of the Moutoa Drainage District, and to collect one farthing in the £ (being a portion of the Special Rate of i'd in the £) on the Unimproved Value of all properties in' the Special Rating District. Such Rates to be for the period commencing Ist April, 1921. and ending 31st. March, 1922, and to be due and payable in one sum at the Office of the Board on the 11th July, 1921. The Valuation Roll and Rate Books are open for inspection at the office of the Board. W. BOCK, Clerk. Foxton, June 9th, 1921, j 9,14,21. TRUCKING PIGS. Messrs garrity & son, ltd., of Palmerston N., notify that thev are trucking pigs at Foxton on MONPAY, June 27th.