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DISTRICT NEWS

(From Our Own Correspondents.) STRATFORD. The increase in the beer duty for outside consumption in the Invercargill returns must be the factor that is causing so many airships and other strange sights to be witnessed in many districts. In my young days rats and snake* were the prime objects of terror to the whisky-soaked brain, but I suppose fashions change. "The final returns from the Hospital Ball organised by the local Oddfellows, with Mr. C. D. Sole, secretary, at the head of affairs, increased the"funds- of the local institution by about £230. including the Government subsidy. Talking of hospitals, the local Board sat for quite a long time investigating a complaint by n father against the | medical superintendent for refusing to call in an outside doctor for consultation when the father offered to pay the expenses, no matter what they were; and, further, the staff was charged with practically refusing a Catholic priest admission to see one of his flock, the bov alluded to in the previous charge. After due consideration the Board found the charges not proven, but went out of their way to hurt the feelings of the father by stating that they considered r.:m ungrateful. Now, a person whs pays the full value for services, and on top of that is charged £lO 10s' for an operation, should surely have the right to complain if he felt' hurt, especially as he had lost a son eighteen veavs old, and his first-born at that. I think it is about time that full enquiries should he held right throughout the Dominion on every case in which the patient dies under an operation. Several papers' say that there seems a perfect craze for operations amongst medical men. The British Medical Association is about one of the .hardest shell-back unions in the world. They stick together like leeches when anyone seeks to investigate things. Mr. T. Gill,, the Government secondary school inspector, is on a visit t '-•> local High School for a dav or two The Banks and Law. New Plvuinnlh. played Stratford at football on' Thursday, the visitors being successful. By the way, it would not be a bad idea i"f some of the mothers travelled with them to these matches. ' The weather is bad. the roads' out back arc worse, and if SO me of your Inanvber of Commerce men would incet straight away and arrange a dinner at W hanganiomona next week and the lot of them make the trip they could hold a meeting every night for a month and Mscuss backbloJ-s problems with some knowledge of what our settlers have to put up with; but I suppose they arc ike the Goyernment~"tlie matter will iceeive consideration."'

• Th.; railway works proceed apace, consi, ™, ,he „„d Huiaknmn 'ill be connected by Christmas. A pol.ce constable is now stationed out there, ve,v''l,;',H WC , hl ' a '' k - tme I,c sIl0 «I'l I glit-ship runners making their bow to -lie -Magistrate „nd leaving considerable amounts to the revenue " u,,Juel'll"l- -" ii ' '" "' the *•* ijnil Courts thai mneueii out of twenty drunks were unemployed should give our legislators food for thought. He wthl" I *,' °" e -? alf ° f the «'l?m loved would always lie so, a* tliev hr„n'„i, «.c trouble bn themselves J gU Many and weird are the reports you tempt to run the stone-crushing work, •en'"/^"" "ciy stationmastcr an iw.l i„ '?, U.ocni.bcd metal and^ti^'you 0 !,; to write to about three or four diire , understrappers, and tin,, vou have to <uld the lot together, get « reckoner, and work out the cost for yourself. A little more business method introduced into the railway" wo ( "do lot of good and help to" make hem

TIKORAXGI. A fair number of settlers -10,.,,,!,,, ■„ -wi. H. \\. Lawrence, consulting chemist to Messrs. T. Jlortlnvick and Sons. Mr JJiwrence gave an interesting address' ™>i.v on the chemistry „f the soil, ami be tested samples taken from dillerent l'*r.< of the district. All showed stro"! ■ t'! t y \ '" < ; or,wt i] "» » dressing of Imlf a ton of rock li, m , ,„,,. „,,,.", m'ommended. My following this course Mi. Lawrence considered Unit ,„„cl, bct'•r results would l„. obtained .fro,,, th • l""'r application of artilicial immure* snch as blood and bone, superphosphate' »is.e slag etc. Although „ ot iscr in itselt, lime in „ ]m]r , r fn '"'"!;""''! to "tost soils. !,„! paradoxical us it seemed., it tended to make heavy • »'ls bgl,ter and light soils ,„or,. dense, e also quoted fro,,, statistics showing !'' !' < '", ult of experiments at BotheriMinsted, clearly demonstrating uie great value of „ f,,1l „„„„„.,, coiitainhx. the chief requisites of plant life, namely Phosphoric acid, nitrogen and potash! Vne* loned on the point, Mr. Lawrence said thai ri theory basic slag and superphosphate should not l,e mixed but in Practice if the ,„i x i„, „.,.„ ,f„ ]1( , fm . mediately before drilling, very execlent results we,-,, often obtained.' At the close of bis addres, Mr. I.awren, , I was accorded a very hearty vote of

Tli.' annual meeting „f shareohlers of thi' I ikorimgi Dairy Company was he'd on Monday last. Tin- v.-pn.-t and balance six-el. as already published in the Daily .News wore ai 1..|)1,.d. The directors mot iininoliately afterwards, and Mr. J. W foreman was re-cleciod foreman.. It wits decided t«. subscribe to tlio Xatio-ial Dairy Association Hume agent fund. -Iln> nnee of young rattle has decidedly advanced, and owners who have slocked turnips with them -will li„d it tairly in-ulitalile. Fortunately the Joss ot calves by blackleg is now reduced to ■practically nil, and it is to be hoped the Moil; Department will continue to make vaccina lion compulsory. One lot ol calves suH'ering from lung worm came under my notice, and the owner consuited Mr. ]|. Taylor, the Waitara vet., wno treated some 80 or !)n 0 f them with an injection in the -trachea, and a genera! improvement was soon manifested. Since then only two have died, and they were in a pretty bad state at the time of treatment.

I understand that .Air. Marr has sold Ids property on tli 0 NV'lhmru road al » satisfactory figure. 11 U also reported that Mr. IT. Oeorgc and Mr. !«'. Clare have ,o!<i their leaseholds in the AVaiiii iilock. J.he I ikoran<»i school secured first prize for onions and second for mangolds al. the I'aliMeiston winter show, and Hi»i prizes are now (o hand. .Monday's blow was tin- worst weather we have experienced so far this winter. It lHou«r)it ijuite a smile cm the countenances of the pessimists, who during.' the gonial curly winter disnuillv fur - fold of' a\yful things to happen later on. Jhe roads are now .breaking up under Ihe continued rain, and that part of the Ngatiinaru road imdcr the control of th'-' V\ aitara Jtorough Council snonhl receive some attention.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 167, 9 August 1909, Page 4

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DISTRICT NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 167, 9 August 1909, Page 4

DISTRICT NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 167, 9 August 1909, Page 4

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