AUCTIONEERS' MEMORANDA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9072, 24 April 1908, Page 6

AUCTIONEERS' MEMORANDA.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., make additions to their Masterton and Eketahuna stock sales. At their Renall Street yards, on Saturday, at 1 o'clock, Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., will offer at auction, on account of Messrs Dagg Broa., A. J. Welch, and Jri. and F. Evans, a large entry of firstclass draught horses. The sale will offer an opportunity to farmers to secure some of the best draught horses in the district.

A test case recently came before the Gisborne Magistrate's Court to ascertain whether a special variety of blackberry was included in the classification of a noxious weed, and upon the evidence adduced Mr Barton, S.M., held that the specie of blackberry specified by the Act was the rubus fruticosis, and did not include the lawtoniana variety growing on defendant's land at Ormond. Mr W. Miller, Inspector in charge of the local stock office, has received a communication from Mr E. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock, who states that Burbank's new hybrids, being principally of raspberry parentage, did not come under the Act, but lawtoniana, being only a shoot fi'om rubus fruticosis, did. Under the above circumstances it is understood the Department will take further steps in the matter.,