NEWS AND NOTES.
“New Zealand, T believe, could easily carry 10,000,000 people without any trouble at all, providing we had a proper organisation of agriculture and industry,” said Mr. H. E. Holland, leader of (lie Parliamentary Labour Party, at a meeting at Invercargill. Hill residential sights in Napier are becoming more and more diflieiilt to obtain, and now houses are going up anywhere that a level may he cut out for the foundation. Today (here are comfortable homes, perched in positions that a generation ago would have been declared to he quite unsuitable for building, purposes.
How a very slight injury caused a man's death was described at an inijuesi at Oxford lately. Walter .John Gremiongh, a blacksmith, was shoeing 1 a racehorse when the animal hinged out, and a wart on his hind leg- grazed Greenough’s elbow joint. He took no notice of it, Imi blood poisoning set in four days later, and Gi'eeinmgh died.
“hand is comparatively cheap in England at .the present time, stated .'dr. J. Skiimci, a Canterbury farmer, who has returned from a visit' to the United Kingdom. “.Many of the large landowners a,re selling out on account of the exorbitant land taxes and their estates are being subdivided and sold. The I.liver gains the benefit of these sales."
A typical example of how waste lands can be made profitable has been strikingly demonstrated at the Pukcora Sanatorium farm, Waipukurau (says the Napier Telegraph). A paddock on the Hat was a couple of years ago the happy home of gorse and similar noxious weeds. The ground was broken up and the gorse eradicated. To-day the ground is producing excellent crops of rich alfalfa, which is utilised as winter feed for the Pukeova dairy herd. A son of the soil, desirous of opening an account in a bank not 100 miles from Invercargill (says the News)', was handed a paper oji which to write his “full name and description.” This is what he wrote: “Mr ——. Short and fair, with whiskers.”
A rare watch, which indicated the days of the' month and the moon’s phases, made by Daniel Quart*, the conscientious Quaker who defied George 1., was sold at Glendinnings in January for £l2 10s. Quare was asked to become ciockmlaker to George 1., but refused to take the oath of allegiance. The difficulty was got over b)' smuggling hint into the royal residences by back ways. He invented the repeater watch, while the watch now sold is stated to be a marvel of mechanism.
The campaign for the destruction ,of rats which is being carried out hv the Wanganui civic officials has revealed several interesting facts. One is that the right sort of bait for the traps is necessary and although aniseed gives good results, it has been proved that the deadliest lure for rats is lisli eyes. It is said that the eyes of a dead schnapper or groper never tails as bait.
An accident near Kopaki on March 15 in which a motor-hearse, carrying a body to the Te Kniti cemetery, was capsized over a hank into a swamp during a funeral procession, was the basis of a case heard at Te Kniti on Tuesday, when, Ilape Chase, a Te Kniti taxidriver, was charged with being drunk in charge of a motor-car, with reckless driving, and with a breach of his prohibition order. Accused pleaded guilty to a breach of his order, hut not guilty to the other charges. Accused was convicted on all charges, sentenced to seven day’s imprisonment and had his driver’s license cancelled.
A new paddle steamer packed in sections was brought to Auckland by the liner Suffolk, from Liverpool. This steamer was built on the Clyde to the order of the lioose Shipping Company, and will be used for trading on the Waikato River. The vessel has a shallow draught, and was specially designed for navigating the difficult portions of the Waikato River. The parts will he unloaded in the course of the next day or two, and will be re-assem-bled on the banks of the W T aikato.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2869, 9 April 1925, Page 1
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