GENERAL TELEGRAMS
j EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. j By Telegraph—Press Association. I Christchurch, Last Nighf. At, the combined meeting of the Experimental Farm Committees of the Farmers' Union and the Canterbury A. & I'. Association it was resolved that it was urgently necessary that stepg be taken by the Government to make a provision in the form of an experimental farm in Canterbury; to device methods to counteract the very serious loss sustained by Canterbury farmer* by reason of the ravages of the grass grub, rape and turnip blight, and other destructive pests; the president of the Association and u representative of the Farmers' Union to wait on the Minister of Agriculture at Wellington on Friday to* urge the establishment of an experimental farm in Canterbury.
810 PROPERTY SALE; PR;ICE .£7C,,000. Auckland, Wednesday. More activity than usual is now'being displayed in the purchase of northern lands One firm of agents reports that m addition to selling Mr. (3, Rjddell's Mana estate, comprising lOjOOO acres, in the Northern Wairoa, to a southern syndicate, they bare now disposed of another of Mr. Riddell's estates, the Mangarata, covering IMO acres, in the same district, to the same southern buyers The purchase price for the two properties ran into £75,000. Both properties through which the northern rafi: arwun™ i"°' * r / t0 *esubdivided intor dairy-farms, and a township wll be laid offM Omana, at the point viTf tl,e ™ lwft y will first tap the Northern Wairoa river. Surveyors are already at work laying off the roads.
MEAT COMPANY'S LOSS. Ti.. w Last Night. The Wanganu. Freezing Company held t„wL m,al , meetin ß *"&■ The repS showed a ]«■ of £5725 on the yiart wooing This was attributed tfS h>gh price paid for stock and the low pnee received for meat. The retiring directors were re-elected. *
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 14 September 1911, Page 5
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