THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1914. "We nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 160, 9 January 1914, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1914. "We nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." LOCAL AND GENERAL.

FIRST PAGE. On a Puni farm. How mixed farming pays. FOURTH PAGE. Panama canal in war time. Red Rubber ; an Englishman's indictment of the slavery conditions.

Amongst the 251 December estates assigned for stamp duty that of c>ir John Logan Campbell, £227,%b, was the largest. The estate of Arthur E. Mellsopp was set down at £I.3NS. In iesponse to his telegram to the Prime Minister, congratulating him on his appointment to the Privy Council, Mr J. A. Young, member for Waikato, has received the following telegram from Mr Masse}' ; —" Many thanks lor hearty congratulations on the high honour conferred on me by I lis Majesty the King. I feel sure our party will appreciate it, and I regard it equally as a distinction to New Zealand as to myself personally. Glad to say my health is progressing steadily."

Representatives of the district senior cadets, No. 4 group, whose area headquarters art at Pukekohe, took part in the military tournament in Auckland on the 3rd and sth inst. Those who went were Sergeant E. Wilkinson, Corporals Home and Felton, Privates T. J.auer. Short, Potter, Penny, Adams, Sweet and Harper. The team only went to "get its hand in" and considering that this is the tirst time they have met in such contests they did very well. They were in the in the tug-of-war. They also took a creditable part in the rille exercises and physical training competitions. They were opposed by all comers of the Dominion, and from the showing they put up the othcers are hopeful that next year this district's team will make a name for itself.

i The wonderful fertility of the land j in the Bay of Plenty is illustrated Iby iis stock-carrying capacity. The results obtained by a settler at Te ■ Teko, sixteen miles inland from I Whakatane, at the head of the 1 Rangataika Swamp, are described j as merely characteristic of thou- ! sands of acres in the district. Upon seven acres of -wede- he placed 200 ewe-, l-'O hoggets, and 30 two-year-old heifers. At the end of three weeks the ewes and the heifers were removed, and during the next six weeks the feed curried, in addition to the hoggets, 10 grown I bullocks and t'O two-year-old sheep of mixed sexes. Then was a ruuuff ot ten acres of mai.-.e stalks, but ■ no gra-s, and also three acres of j rough swamp. The stock did well, I rnanv of the bullocks fattening, and wh.i '■ > - i'n Uy removed tliei wai '.il of feed in tli