News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43316, 23 April 1908, Page 1

News Items.

Labor Commoner Will /'roots speaking in support of Abe proposal to proyide free meals for school children j > deliver:# what the “ Daily Mail calli the greatest speech of * his life.” Among other of, the hardships of poor children, he quoted; the folio#* in'g letter received by one pi the teachers from a widow; with three . children “ Dear Teacher-—Will you. allow my [little girls to coine home; at 'half-past 3 ? I shall have earned 6d by then, and shall be able to give them something warm to eat. They have had. nothing all day„f The pity of the poor mother struggliiig to earn jbread for her hungry little ones! And in a land laden with wealth I-r-the shame; of it all. This is a. true story says Evening Post, of an elderly English engine- driver who in the days before the . Common-; wealth . was employed on a privately-owned line which now; forms part ■of the.; railway! system of one of thg States. He had the misfortune to run over a man, and;' his official report was a model of brevity that should gain approval from; the most exacting of sub-| editors. - Here it [is in his own| words and his own spelling •“ To the Lokomotiv Supt.—ri Sir,—l have report wile runnin easy past 40 mile peg,; hearing' wheels skrunch. Stopt looked under wheels. Found pieces of man; They smelt of drink.—Your obet./W. Smithi ■ ■ ■■ ■ m

A family : settled \ in v the. Forty-Mile Bush had a,; some-) what unique experience in buying a farm. They : werCtti| the Old Country, and, havingf read a great deal about tl ie I land laws of New they got into communication with a firm of land who sent along a list of pro|| perties to choose from, The; intending emigrants selected a| firm in the description of which it said “ tram runs right past! the house.” On reaohing their| selection they found theftramjf line was a “ bush tram anc| for many a month they were heart broken over the !w r ild; country they had landed in| They have long since got ov< 'M that feeling, and now rejoice possessing one of the best dairyl farms in the “ Forty Mile.” : 'jL The Agricultural Department; is satisfied that it took a wise; step when it purchased Angord| i goats in South Australia" for; breeding purposes in . '‘’the! Dominion. The arrivals have!; multiplied in a wonderful* manner. - A large number of; the goats have .been sold o settlers in various parts of ti e country, and are proving invaluable in eating down tbd noxious weeds and ‘ shrubs! The demand for Angoras is | greater than the supply. A } purebred Angora male go -t is worth from 15 to 20 guineasSome time ago the department placed forty or fifty goats in ah enclosure in tbe Pelorus Yalley, infested with brier and blacky berry, and it has been found that they eat the bushes witlv zest. An effort is being made! to secure a larger area in order; to demonstrate the usefulness of the animals in clearing land useless vegetation. ;