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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 14 February 1907, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS.

The lligh School s ports arc to be icld on March. Nominations for )hl Boy.-/ races dose on th<» 2Sth inst. At S. Clark and" Co.'s furnishing warehouse, Devon-street, curtains, cirpet>. iron and wooden bedsteads, etc., are being sold at prices tluit are decidedly alluring to Uk- careful housewife. Call along and satisfy youiveJf on the matter. \\r with! call attention to an additional entry of twenty-five English Leicester rams to Air Newton King's \\ aiwakitiho Sheep Faijj. As wfj undeif stand there i- an unusually keen demand lor ram* this season, ti.is line should meet with a reauy saki on Friday next. A meeting of women in connection with St. Mary's Homes, Auckland, will be held in St. Mary's Hall. New Ph* | mouth, to-day. at U p.m., when Mi-s Hudson, the matron, Mrs Nelhan. mid the Pishop will give addresses. M«'-srs Christie mid <«lcnu, land, fnrineal and general commission ng ent>. of Manaia, have a notice in this is>ue Of intcp'st to tho-c wishing to invest in land. Tlm* firm are doing bu.-hk'N- in li.i- < T ntie of tile Waiinate Plains. and, having a 2'J year*' knowledge oi' ihe couutrv, can <dve oxpert advice to anyone wishing to settle there. Write ;iud -el pai-ti<-nUus. Farms from >0 acre-: upwards on the lists-

The value of ■.■SVlvlJi-'S DIIKXi ,]' is recognised bv the highest autborilv in dairying ill tlic colony. Head what Mr J. A. Kinselta, Government Dairy Commissioner, lias to say about it: "Department of Agriculture (Dairy Division). —A. E. Sykes, Ks<|., Xew Plymouth: Dear Sir,—As Dairy Coiiimi>sioner for this Colony, I have been earefullv watching the effects and value of 'Sykes's Drench' on our dairy herds for lh" past few years. I liave not the. slightest hesitation in stating that an immense amount of improve iiH'iit has been brought .'*.b(lit in (he haltli of ..r dairy eo'.rs. and lliat Virlion is iiov,' less prevalent since Sykes's Drencli' has become known and properly used amongst farmers. The !ie.st testimonial that one ran receive is the praise that "Fykes'* Drencli' receives from all quarters of New Zealand. Personally, 1 am of opinion that no farmer should l>e without a stoek of '.Sykes's Drench.'--Yonrs faithfully, J. A. Kinsella, Dairy Qommfcsioier"

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