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Shannon News, 23 February 1923, Page 3

Speaking of the benefits of electricity, Mr A. ■ Seifert stated at the Ho rowhenua Power Board meeting on Tuesday that he recently visited a dairydistrict where electric power was in use, and after their experience with it the dairymen said it was a vast improvement ov;er oil engines . totdriving milking plants and was clean and, cheap. They djd not wish to go back to the old orderof things.

.“I suppose I can swear as good as you or anybody else,” said a'witness in the Magistrate’s .Court, at Danuevirke ,to a cross-examining solicitor >vho was : interrogating him concerning ■ the lurid- nature of the language he allegedly used in his ordinary conversation.

The curator of the Christchurch public gardens intends to plant 50,DU0 gum trees in Victoria Park, Christchurch, in May. The plants, which have been raised from seed, comprise six species.