DUTCH EAST INDIES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17293, 3 November 1921, Page 9

DUTCH EAST INDIES.

government official visits NEW ZEALAND. Although in Kew Zealand on holiday only, Mr Sibinga Mulder, Director ot Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce in tho Dutch East Indies, is obtaining a good insight into the agricultural and industrial conditions of tho Dominion. He has been five weeks in New Zealand, and has toured t)he North Island. This week he arrived in Christchurch from, tho West Coast, and to-morrow he leaves for the south. In tho course of a brief that with & "PiW reporter last nigtit lie expressed his gratitude at the way in wiitcn lie' had been shown round tine districts he had visited. Yesterday lie was taken out to the saleyards, and then on t-o Lincom College and ether places. He was favourably impressed with t'he stock which ho saw at the saleyards. and eulogised the Hoistein cattle which lie saw in the dairying districts in different parts of the Dominion, Being a native of Hoistein, ho was naturally keenly interested in noting how thai class of dairy cattle fared in the Antipodes. He said be had seen the. twenty odd head of Holstein-l riesians which had been cent' from Now Zealand to Java some time ago, and tliey looked remarkably well. There were prospects tihat tho Dutch farmers in Sumatra would import more' -Holsteins from New Zealand. Dealing witn commeroe, Mr Mulder said -that if there were a direct shipping service between New Zealand and India a fair trade could bo done with the Dutch Fast Indies in exporting dairy produce. Theno is now a monthly service between Java and Sydney, and anything going to or coming from New Zealand requires to be transLhipped at Sydney. Mr Mulder said that it was proposed to send a ' 'flying exhibition" of tho colony's produce to Australia) next year, and it was also iri his mind to iacludo the principal towns of New Zealand.

The fishing fraternity of Lowestoft are regretting tho intended retirement this autumn of Benjamin Tripp, of Burgh St. Peter, a village on the marsiies of the Waveney ValJey ; about five miles from Lowestoft. Tripp, who is 78, for 60 years has rowed down to Lowestoft every week day to supply boats in tho harbour' with fresh vegetables. Tripp's daily fire miles row from Burgh to Lowestoft has been with a load varying from lOcwt to 1 ton. During the home herring fishing he has frequently taken back to Burgh the game weight of fish. Tripp in 50 years must, have rowed at least 160,(M) miles.