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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9438, 7 May 1909, Page 5

The price of potatoes in Oamara daring the past few days has advanced to £4 per ton f. o. b. Oamara. " Forty-four years’ continuous service as a school committee-man has been achieved by Mr W. Oleland, of the Taita (Hntt Valley, Wellington). He has been a member Of the Taita School Committee since 1864, and in all those'years he has been absent from only one meeting. At Auckland Police Court to-day William Wilson, Thomas Costello, William Henry Chamberlain, Franks Brown, labouring men, were charged with having carried on tote betting at last Elleralie races. All "pleaded guilty and each was fined £3 and costs. Thomas Fanning charged with receiving and William Harris with the theftfof a parse, containing £4O belonging to H. L. James, a lady passenger, on the night express from Auckland to Wellington, was remanded to Taamarnnni. A phase of the labour question which Madame Melba met with in. the South appealed strongly to her sense of the humorous, says the Christchurch Press. ‘’ I bad no idea, ’* said she “to what extent labour legislation prevailed here until it was brought practically home to me. In one of the towns where I sang I was unable to get any supper after the concert. The members o' the Cooks’ Union would not work after 7 p.m., and had my butler nr« gone to work and cooked me a chop I should, have bad to go snpperless. ”