Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2962, 14 November 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. Hynes and family left Foxton for Tanranga tiy 11m midday train today.

Mr. Iv. Easton’s yearling draught eoll annexed first prize in I lie yearling colt section at (lie Palmerston North Show last week. 'Phis is the first local horse to gain the distinction. Air. Easton was the buyer of “Black Index,” the chain pion stud horse at the Royal Show last year. Members of the Foxton Rille Club will be pleased to hear that Mr. If Frankland, onetime secretary of the local club and now a member of Ivavori Ride Club, Wellington, annexed the first prize in a fortnightly competition shoot last: month. Air. B. Head, of Foxton. has also joined the Karori Club: There passed away in a private hospital, in ITawcra. on Thursday, November sth, after a serious operation, one of the old pioneers of. Taranaki, in the person of Air. AA’illiam Wlallaec, aged 77 years. The. deceased was accorded a full military funeral in recognition of his services during the Maori Wars in the “fifties” and sixties.” Mrs. A. Saunders, an old resident of this district is a daughter of deceased. A commendable action on the part of a number of Nelson tomato growers toward a local grower who had been laid aside with sickness is recorded. This grower has been lately in the hospital recovering from a serious operation, and realising that a very severe loss would occur to him by not being able to plant his tomatoes, some of his fellow-growers assembled at his garden and ploughed the land and planted and slicked some 5000 plants, also replacing several that had been stricken by a late frost. The residents of the Marlborough Sounds have experienced what is probably the wettest spring on record there —certainly the wettest for many years. The rain gauge at Yenya Bay recorded fifteen days with rain during September and seventeen during October, the total precipitation for the two months being just over fifteen inches —6.40 inches for Sepember and 8.65 for October. Shearing has commenced in several sheds, and, as was to be expected, states the Marlborough Express, the wool is showing the effects of the excessive winter and spring rainfall. AATiat is claimed to be the largest oak tree in the world is growing at AVaima, North Island. This tree grew from an acorn planted by the Rev. John Mavin, of the Hokianga Home Mission Station, in 1840. The tree at present lias a girth of 24 feet, rises to a height of 80 feet, and at noon easts a shade of 100 feet in diameter. Under the spread of its branches 500 people can gather. AVaima Val-ley is a quiet, pretty nook about a dozen miles up the Hokianga River, and the oak is growing about half a mile inland. Though some eighty years'old, it is larger than oaks in England 500 years of age. When asked by an Otago Daily Times reporter to express an opinion on the recent political elections in Canada, Mr. D. H. Ross, Canadian Government Commissioner to the Exhibition, said that as a Government official he would lie treading on thin ice in expressing any definite opinion. It would appear, he said, from the press cables that politics were getting back into old definite party lines, which existed in pre-war days, when there were only two parties—the Liberals and Conservatives —in the Canadian Parliament. The. most notable change at the recent elections had been that the Progressives, or Fanners’ Party, was reduced from over 60 members to about 20 members.