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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 129, 7 November 1902, Page 4

It is now ascertained that the area of land under crop in New Zealand this year is largely in excess of that cropped last season. Mr Balfour, Prime Ministet of Great Britain, is not unmindful of his obligations as a New Zealand landowner. He has just sent out a cheque for £25 towards the building of a church at Pahiatua, in which district he holds an estate. The patent rights have just been secured for an unpuncturable bicycle tyre invented by a Christchurch man. A thin, light strip of hide is gummed inside the tyre covers in place of the canvas, and ifc is claimed that the hide will be tough enough to be for all practicable purposes unpuncturable. About thirty hands are engaged at the State Mine at Ooal Creek, Greymouth. Three shifts are kept going driving in one tunnel, and one shift in \ each of the two tunnels. It will, it is J is supposed, take over eighteen months ■ before coal is got into the market. The menace to public health by dirty bank notes inconstant -circulation, a subject discussed by the Masterton chamber of Commerce recently, has been brought under the notice of the health Department by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Bicyclists should never start out vCrfthout a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm in their tool bags. This liniment is excellent for all flesh wounds and sprains. One application gives relief. Try it. A Manoy sells it.