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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 22 December 1904, Page 29

Pome time ago Messrs. Hallenstein Bros., of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, got up a children's rtivmjng contpetition, the aubjoct being tlhe welPknown H 15. bra-ni. Several thousand children competed and out of the rhymes sent in the firm selected a number and 'published them in booklet form. If the samples of lJhyme in the little book arc the genuine work -of the writers it) is evident that verse making will in time 1 ecome a very promising industry...

T)he reff-ilt of the outbreak of disea.se amsongst potatoes in fhe Auckland district is the issue of a Gazette Swnplememt declaring early blight (Alterttaria s^oFani) and potato rot, or Irish potato blight (Phytophtlhora intesialtis), to be diseases within the meaning of" the Ordhar-d and Garden Pests Act. This Act provides thiit theKJavemor may from time to time, /by Or'de>ihOubncil gai7etted, prohibit the bringing into any Specified portflon of New Zealand from any other portion of New Zealanld of any specified plant, etc., whi^b in his opinion is disease!, or Is likely to spread disease The act is a very comprehensive one, and if it« re«i!atl&ns are emforce»d tiow that the 'diseases mdntioneti Have "been gazetted Into the Act, the sthioment of AudklaWd plotatoes may be entirely suppressed for a time.