WEATHER FORECAST.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 14 August 1915, Page 5

WEATHER FORECAST.

i Northerly winds, strong to gale. The. i weather appears to bo cloudy and un- | settled. Heavy rain is to be expected j with rivers rising shortly. Barometer j falling.

i ; The local reporters of a eertain pro- | vincial town ('says the Ohakuue Times) having been round fault with for their j method of reporting the speeches at I the Council'b .■meeting's, retaliated by J giving the speech of one of the memI bcrs exactly as it was spoken. V\"he.n t the councilor looked for his speech ! next.morning, it rend as follows: "The I repnj-Tvrs ought not to —the reporter?: ' ought not to be the ones to judge of what is important —not to say what I should ! >e left out—but —the members i can only judge of what is important. As I —as my speeches—as the reports—as what I say is reported sometimes no one—nobody can understand from t the reports—what it is—what I .mean. i So —it strikes me —it has struck mo certain matters —tilings that appear of : no importance —are sometimes left out j omitted. The reporters —the papers—points are reported T mean —to make a brief statement what the paper thinks of interest is reported." i Concerning the reported reduction in the price of wheat and flour in New ' J Zealand, the Prune .Minister sftrtes that I the wheat prospects were very satis- | factory. "According to the report which I have had from the Registrar' j General,'' said Mr. Masscy, "I am satj ised that there is sufficient wheat in j New Zealand now to last until the new j crop comes in, unless the harvest iiapj pens to be very late. In saying- this, I ! know, of course, as everyone else .whoI lius looked into the subject must know, that you can't finish up the old wheu-t j one day and begin to use new wheat ; the next day. There must be some surI pins carried ever. If the supply is i nearly exhausted very serious ineoni venienee will result. That was the jjo--1... . „ . i sition in which we very neaivy found j ourselves last season, and from which, we were saved only by the arrival of I 100,000 bushels of wheat from New i South "Wales. This drop in the price ]of wheat in New Zealand is in symI pathy with the fall in the price in j Europe and America, and I presume that there will be a similar reduction all I over the world. Here we have now I had two tests —the threshing machine I returns, and three months later wo . have taken the wheat census. We intend to take anther census in Octobei" to satisfy ourselves, as time goes on, that our supples of food are sufficient: i for cur population." I - j