LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 115, 12 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As tlm leases fall in of the reserves administered by the School Commissioners, and arc renewed, tin. Hoard's revenue shows a big increase. Some eases in point. A rental of ,i:t Is has been increased to £S; another goes up from £l4 to £33; and a third from ±l3 ISs to i.i'2.

Boys who throw at lnoreporks should nob do so when there are street lamps' in the danger zone. There are some lads at the west end who, in endeavoring to knock over moreporks, have shattered several bulbs in the street lighting circuit on the licit Road. Apart from the mischief, there is the fact that moreporks are very harmless birds, and they do an immense amount of good, preying upon sparrows and. other small birds which are a pest to the orchardists.

Air. J. (J. Harknesa, secretary oi the National Dairy Association, who has been on a visit to Taranaki, tells of a continuance of remarkably line weatner which has favored dairymen of the butter-fat province during the past season, says the New Zealand Times. Naturally, he says, the country is not looking so well as it was a few weeks ago, as there have been some frosts which have affected the pastures, but feed is plentiful and the stock am looking remarkably well. The province is experiencing a remarkably line winter after a phenomenal season. An idea of the mild winter can be gained from the fact that last Monday Egmont had practically no snow on it except a few patches on the southern side, whereas it is usual at this time of the year for it to be covered with snow down to the forest line.