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The Free Press, Balclulha, states that the stock at the Government poultry farm at Milton comprises 1900 birds, including ducks, and there is not one over three years old. The whole 1900 are remarkably healthylooking ; indeed, Mr Carr says that he has not a sick bird or the place, nor has there been one this winter. Pens are now being got ready for mating, in view of the incoming season, and of these there will he 40, including three of Silver Wyandottes, which hold pride of place in popular esteem at present. The birds will all be young, and the manager intends to do everything possible to ensure the fertility of the eggs.
At a meeting of the Petone Borough Council on Monday a Contract was accepted for the erection of municipal buildings for Petone, at a total cost (including £SO premium for the architect and his professional fee) of £5,8.16. The actual contract price is £486|2, which includes a clock tower not in the original plan. The plans i were prepared Jiy Mr Robert Leweish, and the building' will lie elected by Messrs Reynoll Bros. A three-days' celebration was held at Tokio in honour of the soldiers who had fallen in the war. It began on Wednesday, May 2, and continued till Friday. With elaborate ceremonials, the names of 86,8616 soldiers and sailors who were killed prior to the battle of Mukden ' were enshrined in the Temple of Shokonslia. The many kinsmen and kinswo men of the fallen, who were assembled in Tokio to participate in the ceremonies, were shown special consideration, and 'were the guests of the nation.-
While playing for the Xcwton dis--rict football club's second fifteen against, the City team on Saturdaj at Alexandra Pa'rk, a player named Clark had the misfortune to have one of his legs broken below the knee. Clark jumped in the air to secure the ball just as one of the opposing players attempted to kick it, and received the full force of the kick on his shin, with the reiiult that the bone was broken. The injury was attended to by Br. Moir, oflicial metl - cal officer to the union, and Clark was subsequently sent homo in a cab. A Wellington syndicate, organised by Mr Jas. MacMahon, who is wellknown in theatrical circles, has secured a block of land with a frontage of beach at Island Bay for the purpose of establishing a popular sea* side resort. It is expected that the extension of the electric tramways to Island Bay will make the locality a popular place for holiday-making next summer, and the enterprise of the syndicate is due to that expectation.
New Zealand butter receives a splendid testimonial in the following, edi- | torial remarks in the Daily Province, I published at Vancouver: 'Eastern Canadian butter manufacturers who have been disposed to ridicule the competition of New Zealand butter on the British market are seriously disturbed at the fact that it has made its appearance on the Dominion market in rivalry with the homemade article, and it actually meets with favour. Its superior excellence is established by tine •fact that when exposed for sale in this ooluitry it retains its flavour muQii, longer than tho Canadian article, despite the fact of its long joiurney across half tho globe. If it Can be brought here and drive our own products out of tho home market, there is little likelihood of tho Canadian article being successful alongside it in Great Britain." Tile paper attributes the success of New Zealand butter to the fact that the New Zealand producer' understands the value of a good refutation, and will ship nothing but the best article to the foreign market.
A magazine writer says that oneseventh of the people of the United States-tWat is to say 10,000,000 are in a state of poverty, being un-der-fed, under-clothod and badlyhoused. ]jn the city of New York, he say«, the poverty stricken vary from 14 to 25 per cent. Yet ailaround the city are deserted farms, where willing hands could produce ample food and everywhere householders are crying out in vain for domestic servants.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7855, 22 June 1905, Page 4
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