NEWSY PARS.
Timaru, it is reported, is about to have a continuous .telephone service. A requisition for the service has been signed by 260 people, and HO have expressed! themselves as opposed to ilia proposal. At. present the sei'viae is until midnight on week days and for two houirk morning and afternoon on Puiirlays.
Word has Iken reoeivletl by the Ohinemuii Coum.ty Council that Gorerument lias pmvisio.nally approved of the loan of .£-2500 for the Nethertan bridge across; the W'aihou Raver. The steps preliminary to the taking of the poll will be proceeded! with a.t oaice, and ,prc»baibly the poll on thd loan proposal will eventuate in about seven or eia'ht weeks' timei.
A gi'een aphis, which is pecluliar to the species of titees,- has attacked the silver birtih trees this season in th,e Forest Department's! plantaitionsi at Hanmsr Springy. It is not sierious and beyond defoliating' the. a.tlauked trees a little, no. harm has betn done. It was noticed! in Canterbuiry last year. A woolly fungus, wliioli generally a^ttacksi the spcuess, ban also been noticed on the Austrian pine (pinus austriaoa). 'It does not do serious harm in a. plantation, though the odd' trees attacked may die. ■ .
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10346, 20 April 1911, Page 1
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198NEWSY PARS. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10346, 20 April 1911, Page 1
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