NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 June 1918, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

OPOSSUM PQACHM*. ? HOKITIKA, this day. Two constables on Saturday found one hundred and forty opossum skins near Lake Kaniere. Two men wert|f arrested in connection therewith, one being a soldier absent without leave from camp. Opossums are very numerous in the Lake district, and considerable poachnig is reported to be taking place.

LAND I'o3 sommu.

WELLINGTON, June 22 The Hon. D. H. Gutrhie, with the enthusiasm of the new broom directed, by the experience of the practical farmer, is speeding up the efforts of the Lands Department to place returned soldiers on the land. He has just returned from another tour of inspection in the Auckland district with'his eye on several large areas which he thinks could be readily adapted to the requirements of men who are inclined to return to the smaller rural occupations. His difficulty is not with the returned farmer who wants to get back to the calling he was following before he shouldered a rifle, but with men imbued with a "new love «?r the open life who is reluctant to remount the office stool or resume his old place behind the counter. The Minister is hoping to make opportunities for his man on some of the good lands of the North and to enlist him in the great army of producers that must bear the major part of the burdens that will fall upon the Dominion after the war.

DEATH OF A FOOTBALLER. ! Received 9 45" a.m. • AUCKLAND, this day. ' Percy Moon, aged 19, collided with another player at a football match at Te Aroha and died from internal injuries. .