DOMINION NEWS.
THE’ DAIRYING INDUSTRY
[Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, Sept. 27
The New Zealand Dairy Association have just made payments totalling £7160 for butter-fat supplied to their creameries during August. Payments for the same month last year totalled ■<'4673- thus there is an increase of £2486.
IMMIGRANTS BY THE FIFESHIRE
The Federal-Houlder-Shire liner Fifeshire, which arrived from Liverpool this morning, brought 196 immigrants io» New Zealand. Auckland takes 77, Wellington 26, Lyttelton 28, and Port Chalmers 15. There are 27 farmers, distributed between the ports of whem Auckland takes about 18. In saloon and steerage passengers there are 211 English, one Jew, 25 Scotch, and 13 Irish.
MT. EGMONT METAL CRUSHING
WORKS
STRATFORD, Sept. 27. The Hon. R. McKenzie, accompanied bv the Mayor of Stratford and party, visited Mount Egrnont metal crushing works. Stone is being obtained from the river bed, the railway line nob being extended to the actual This necessitates a great amount of handling, which was unfavorably commented on by the visitors. The Minister. in reply to the toast of his health, at the luncheon, remarked that he was “disgusted at the whole show.” If assured that suitable metal was there, his department would give the two or three miles of railway required to reach the quarries. Mr. Hine, member for the district, said he was sure Mr. McKenzie, having seen the condition of affairs, would mend it. The Minister, interjecting, “Or end it.”
RAILWAY CONCESSIONS TO TEACHERS. DUNEDIN, Sept. 27. The secretary to the Education Board has received a telegram from the Education Department, intimating that the concession of free railway tickets to teachers attending Saturday training classes in Dunedin will be extended to the 31st December next.
IN VER CARGILL TR AMW AYS. INVERCARGILL, Sept, 27. Meetings held in the different- suburbs to-night all decided in favor of the installation of up-to-date tramways. A vote of ratepayers is to he taken on October 14th. '
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2618, 28 September 1909, Page 5
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319DOMINION NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2618, 28 September 1909, Page 5
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