ALEXANDRA

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2484, 12 June 1888, Page 3

ALEXANDRA

Lii-'KSSINC Bksch.—At the Licensing Court, Alexandra, on June 7th, before Messrs J. D. Hill (chairman), Henry Hadheld and G. Miles, Commissioners, Thomas Pinch applied for an accommodation license for the Alexandra Hotel. The police report by Constable ./ones was a favourable one, as to the manaeenient, etc. Air Finch, in support of his application, urged that in consequence of the great, depression in his trado it was impossible for him to carry on the business under the old hotel license fee, hence the present application. -The.-' Commissioners, after a slight discussion, unanimously agreed to grant the application, fixing the license fee at the sun; of £5 per annvavn. This was all the business. The Codlin Moth Bim..— Amongst the farmers in the district there are great complaints at the low rates obtainable for their produce and stock of all descriptions, and the burthens they are called upon to boar by .the• constant, increase of taxation inflicted upon every article they have need of. Bat not content with this the Government would further tax them for growinff a ; few apples for their families -dread of the codlin moth, which all consider is greatly exaggerated, and thi! cryfjotnp, not by the country people at large, but by a few faddists, to assist Hobbs in his hobby—men with from a rood to an acre of garden with nothing else to do but grow apples. The farmers think that to please theaofpeople they should not be called upon to keep deadly poisons in their houses, to the dangar of their children, and think they might be better employed than walking around with a squirt, firing at their fruit trees with a mixture ol it. Why do not these gentry go in for extermination all round —viz., caterpillars, aphis, Beetles, cockroaches, sandflies, etc., all of which are nnisances? But no legislation is likely to do away with them any,more than the codlin moth will be exterminated. ;