, The Timara Herald says :—“ The grain in this district is nearly all harvested, and in most cases threshed as well. The number of threshing machines at work is astonishing ; some three or four years ago, three' or at most four "machines served the whole district. This year we have ten" or a dozen. By these means the grain must be more readily placed in the market, and should relieve the farmers'of some anxiety; r The 1 prices Offered f this yearj ! for wheat especially, can scarcely recoup the grower for his outlay.A natural sequence of the termination of harvest work is, l am sorry to say, an increase in the number of ‘ drunk and , disorderlies,’'. These, ordinarily : decent people now fritter away their hardly-earned enjoying "themselves or improving their constitutions. ;
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5614, 27 March 1879, Page 2
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130Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5614, 27 March 1879, Page 2
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