INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 8

INGLEWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) April 15.

That motor power is putting horse power into the background, so far as road traffic is concerned, is now past denying. It Isas, however, been fondly hoped by many lovers of horses that it would, at any rate, be long before their use on the land could be dispensed with. Such old friends of the horse will perhaps learn with regret that here in the Inglewood district the common or garden motor car has been used for ploughing purposes. As a matter of fact, on Mr. E. J. Ible’s farm, Wortley Road, last week a single furrow plough was attached securely to an Overland motor ear, and with the ear for haulage power Mr. Ible states that 5 acres of land were ploughed’s inches deep with a 12-inch furrow in six hours. Air. J. Hudson, manager of the farm, carried out the experiment, and says he is so satisfied that he intends to make a further trial with a double furrow plough, the result of which he has promised to report in due course.

Aparently there is no seething excite-, ment here over the coming election of Mayor and councillors for the Borough of Inglewood. It is generally understood that three or four of the old councillors have decided not to offer themselves for re - elect io.n, and the question naturally arises, K Avho can we get to take their place?” However, nomination day will answer that question. It is to be hoped that/some good men will submit to the yoke of public service, men who will be content to forward the general good, even though they get no credit for so doing. There is much that can be done, even in small communities. But little will ever be done for the general good by councillors who think only of the immediate effect of their votes, who live for popularity and to show in the lime light, and fail to consider the interests of succeeding dwellers in the borough, the future of which they have an opportunity to influence. At the local Magistrate’s Court today, before Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., J. W. Harding, Norfolk Road, was charged with failing to cleai ragwort from his property. The Inspector (Mr. W. Harris, of Stafford) pointed out that this was a bad case. Defendant pleaded guilty, but stated he bad been unable to get labor and that he would be obliged to stqck half his farm with sheep next year to keep down the weed. A fine of £2 and costs was inflicted.