LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Stratford County Connell lias received the consent of the Government to raise a loan of £ 100 for completing the construction of the Pukenkahu Road.

“There is no doubt that the bush is gradually being encroached upon at both ends, and this together with the reading along the banks is slowly robbing the river of its chief glory and Now Zealand of a unique asset,” reported the overseer to the Wanganui River Trust this week.

There is a good prospect of the Patea District High School being re-established in the near future, as there are at the present time some 16 children eligible to attend, this being over the number required for the establishment of the school (says the Press;.

The Wanganui Woollen Company has been advised by its London buyer to delay purchasing its machinery until prices fall. Consequently the directors have decided to hold off until advised by the company’s London agent that prices have reached something’like bedrock, believing that in doing this they will be serving the interests of the shareholders better than by purchasing machinery at high prices

A year’s yield of 15,349.91 b of milk has just been made by Mr. G. N. Bell’s aged Shorthorn cow Dairymaid under semi-official test, giving 722.81 pounds of butter-fat for the twelve months ending last month. This constitutes a New Zealand Shorthorn record which stood unbroken until early last December, to be exceeded by Dairymaid, who is over 12 years of age, doing 22 pounds better. This phenomenal animal ran with the herd in Kairanga without extra feeding except dry bran at each night and morning milking.—Auckland Star.

Prices for beef at the Westfield fat stock sales on Wednesday showed a further slight decline compared with last week’s rates, competition being dull and freezing buyers doing very little. Extra choice ox sold to £2 10s per 1001 b, choice and prime at from £2 4s to £2 9s, ordinary and ulain at from £2 2s to £2 ss. For sheep, penned in large numbers, competition was keener and prices better than last week. Good wethers made from £1 7s 6d to £1 12s, ewes £1 4s to £1 9s Gd, and lambs from £1 3s 6d to £1 13s 3d. Pigs were yarded in average numbers, and sold at about last week’s prices. Heavy baconerg realised from £4 6s to £4 19s, and heavy porkers at from £3 10s to £3 15s. The need for conserving funds for the relief of returned soldiers who break down in health as a result of war service was stressed by Brigadier-General Richardson, when speaking at Wellington this week. “You see so many returned soldiers who look all right,” said the General. “Many of them have had a bad time at the front, and ill effects which they have suffered will recur on them in after life. That is why I always emphasise the need in this country for preserving your patriotic funds and other moneys for the benefit of those men whom we shall hear of to our last days, and for the relief of tiheir dependents.” The tourist traffic, which was unprecedently- heavy at Christmas and New Year? has now dropped to its normal volume. The majority of travellers using railway excursion tickets have returned to their homes, and the remainder will return by February 18, when the tickets will be no longer available. The popular tourist resorts in both islands are still freely patronised. A large number of sight-seers have lately visited the Waitomo Caves and gone down the Wanganui River, while Mount Egmont and the thermal district continue to attract a full complement of visitors.

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