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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 120, 7 October 1902, Page 3

Mr D. Wilkins, manager of the Flaxmore flaxmill, notifies that he is a cash purchase* of green flax, for which the highest market price will be paid. The mill is now in. excellent working order and during the past toonth about 50 bales were placed consignment. It is expected the Output will be increased to fully 80 bales during October. The Agricultural department has arranged that instruction in the art of rearing and managing fowls shall be imparted at its experimental farm at Momohaki. The course will last six weeks, and a nominal charge will be made for the instruction. In an address at Stratford recently the Government Poultry Expert predicted that in twelve years time the poultry industry would run the dairy industry very close. There was an unlimited demand for eggs. One Wellington confectioner had preserved 40,000 eggs and was then 10,000 short of his requirements for the coming season. He (Mr Hyde) believed that 100 birds could be profitably run on an acre of poor land. As the result of Mr Hyde’s address a poultry company has been formed in Stratford. It is a singular fact thatjjhe small birds in the Waitaki County are thriving on the poisoned grain laid down with the object of destroying them. The grain, however, is fatal to waterfowl and domestic ducks. Auckland medical men now visit patients per automobiles. They are considered quite the thing because of the speed with which they enable patients to be visited. At latest advices eggs were selling in Durban at 8s 6d per dozen. Nothing has been heard of the Vilanden, a fine steel ship that left Tampa over 200 days ago fox* Adelaide.