NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4444, 26 April 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

Snakes are growing- in popularity as pels in the West End of Eondon; they range from grass snakes nl a shilling or so each to larger and more uncommon varieties at several pounds each.

Paper is the chief ingredient in a lire and wafer proof brick that a. Serbian sculptor has prepared. It is suitable for Lire construction of one and two-storey buildings, according to reports, and nails can be driven into it without damage. .Buckets, car wheels, and many other serviceable articles are being manufactured from paper.

Graded eggs now bear their age, denoted by two letters, the lirst denoting the week, and the second the day of laying. Starting with January, each letter of the alphabet covers a week, the last week of June being Z, when Lhe alphabet will commence again. Thus, an egg laid on January 25th, a Saturday, would be marked .L). E.

Prizes offered by the editor of a .French farming newspaper for the best lu ft of ears of corn from a single seed, the best beetroot, and the best potato, have been given for a tuft producing 72 ears of corn with 25U4 grains, weighing -Jo/.., a beetroot weighing slightly over 30ib., and a potato weighing well over 21b.

I'Vom the beginning of the fruit export season it was estimated that this would be a record export apple season for Nelson, a,ud it is now certain that not only will the 1028 record be broken but the increase will amount to over 150,0(10 cases. On earlier estimates of the apple cr,<>p growers in Nelson booked shipping space for 760,0U0 cases of tipples, but now that the crop is being handled many growers are hading it necessary to apply for more space, and it is estimated that an extra 40,000 cases will have to be provided for. If that number comes to hand, and there is every prospect of that tottil being reached, the total export of apples for the season will be 800,000 cases. The previous largest export was 1928, when the Nelson total reached 604,588 cases.

ilm financial year; and that the un in port uni ol .lie loan will not 1,, upline,l until Ihe linam-ial year, ]])■■] | think lluil the lacl that, v. e arc opening I wo new wards Ibis u-iili only a very small in;.n.;|s(, in our levy should be quite

satisfactory lo mir ratepayers.

l'nucludiug, Ihe chairman thanked Ihe members of I lie board for I heir close co- opera f ion, expressed his appreeial ion of the work of the managing-secretary ami staff, and ■ •\-londed his congratulations to Ihe medical super’!nl endc.nl. matron, mirses, and all associated with the institution on a. successful jcar s Work. He fell: that the ratepayers vvere receiving good mine for their money, and only by special effort, would they emue through the new Vl .;ir salisfaetorliy from a financial point of view.