NEWS AND NOTES
There is to be an open season next month in the Otago district for the trapping of oppossnms. The Wanganui Education Board has prepared a list of 25 schools in the district requiring additions or improvements urgently. The total number of dogs registered in Dannevirke county is 1449. Rangitikei County Council closed the financial year with a credit balance of £11,412. The top Mountain House on Egmont has now been lined, and the fire in the big fireplace, designed to be perpetual, has been lighted. The first lambs of the season may be seen on Mr. Robert Bevan’s farm at Manakau, says the Otaki Mail. In Wanganui there are a number of school children suffering from septic sores. The cause of these in many instances is not known.
A Feibling business man who lias been on a visit to Waitara reports that so far this season 75,000 carcases of pigs have been put through the freezing \govks there, and they are still killing 70 pigs an hour. — Star. Some time ago a resident of Taurangn wrote to the Cawthorn Restitute, Nelson, asking whether the institute had any specific to recommend to deal with blackberry, states the Auckland Herald’s Tan-' ranga correspondent. A'reply was received recommending a trial of one pound and a half of arsenic and three pounds of washing soda, with six gallons of water boiled for twenty minutes, the mixture to be applied with a fine spray. Following these instructions, the resident lias had distinct success in dealing with blackberry at Papamoa<. As far as can lie judged the patch of blackberry sprayed has been killed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3791, 12 May 1928, Page 4
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