FARMING INTERESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 5 August 1913, Page 2

FARMING INTERESTS.

ACTIVITIES OF THE UNION.

A suggestion has been forwarded to the neutral executive of the New Zealand Tanners' Union in Auckland by the Hamarama branch of the union in. favour of circularising branches concerning a proposal that auctioneers should be requested to reduce their commission charges, which, it is stated, are considered excessive.

At a special meeting of the Rarrtarama branch the experimental plot scheme was fully discussed, and seven members signified their willingness to take up plots in accordance with the suggestions of the -Agricultural Department.

The branch decided to write to the *"arne Minister to again ask that the -nTne o'clock and one o'clock trains should jstop at Itunciman. An endeavour; is also io be made to secnre two mails per day ior Ramarama- and Bombay, instead of -one as at present. It was pointed out ihat to fret an answer-to a letter sent to Auckland (25 miles away) is now a matter of three days.

The union is also moving with a view ■to securing better facilities for the trucking of sheep and cattle from the Paptkura station. It is being pointed out to the Department that drovers now have to wait lengthy periods for their turns, and tbe_sugg.eslion.i3 made._that more yards are needed at the station. In connection with a recent discovery of lime at Albany, the Farmers' Union has secured an analysis from the Government officials. 3>j_ss& «X» -allows; Silica and insoluble -_Si® per cent, isjfej-g ca r . bonate 79.87 p?r cent, iron aluminfw oxide .11 per cent, magnesia .09.