NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3753, 11 February 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Owing to the dry weather, some farmers in Taranaki have been milking only once a clay. • A Manaia housewife says that , summer time is affecting the food bill (remarks the Waimate Witness). In a small household the weekly consumption of butter has increased by three-quarters of a pound, and bread by two loaves, more outdoor exercise in the form of gardening and games accounting for increased appetites. Should this become general it will surely be good news to the producers, who are looking for ways and means of increasing consumption on the local market while those dairy farm-* ers who hitherto professed to see no merit in the daylight saving legislation will be able to console themselves with the fact that the saving of daylight has in some degree increased consumption of farm products.

There is a prevalent idea that the kauri, the most noble of the New Zealand forest trees, grows only in the Auckland province, and north of latitude 38, a line practically from Tauranga to Taupo. As a matter of fact (says an exchange this week), the kauri is well distributed. Wanganui has a flourishing kauri grove, and Dunedu has an excellent specimen. “We have a kauri growing at Kew Gardens,” said Dr. A. 'W. Hill, who visited the kauri bush

at the Cascades, in the Waitakere Ranges, this -week. He said that he had also seen a kauri growing in Italy. Mr. H. E. Vaile said that while on his recent tour of the East he saw kauris growing in Ceylon.