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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2521, 7 June 1909, Page 2

Ainv Bock, notes the “Christchurch. Evening News,” is the first woman to bo declared a habitual criminal. The Gorge bridge (Ashhurst) will bo officially opened by His Excellency the Governor on June 9. No fewer than 77 applications were received for the position of assistant inspector of nuisances under the Dunedin City Council. Mr W. Richardson, of Awahuri, has exchanged his farm of 401 acres for Mr Swaney’s of 1035 acres at Wairoa. The lack of unanimity amongst the farmers was repeatedly bewailed by the various speakers at the Farmers’ Union Conference at Auckland. Tho president laid stress on the matter in his address, and delegate after delegate took up the subject, and pointed out what a great power lay in the hands of farmers if they would only combine. Mr Schmitt, a Clevedon representative, lamented the “awful fact” that only 6 per cent, of the farmers generally were members of their union, although he pointed with pardonable pride to the proportion embraced by the Clevedon branch, which, he said, was no less than, 80 per cent. Another delegate summed up the possibilities by exclaiming “We, the farmers of. New Zealand, if we vote solid, are the. Government.” Captain Colbeck, of Clevedon, indulged in metaphor. He urged that they should get the farmers to exclaim aloud, with one voice, “We will have no more of this; wo have provided the feast, and wo will sit at the head of, the table, and not be content to act a dog’s part in licking up the crumbs.”