EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18725, 23 June 1926, Page 12

EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD.

MB R. S. FORSYTH APPOINTED. (special to the razss.) WELLINGTON, June 22. Mr R, S. Forsyth, ■who has been ap- '' pointed New Zealand representative on the Empire Marketing Board, of which Mr L. C. M. S. Amery, Colonial Secretary, is head, is the London manager of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. Mr Forsyth had a long and successful business experience in 'A'cw Zealand with the National Mortgage and Agency Co., and prior to his appointment with the Meat Board was manager in Timaru of that Company Mr Forsyth has been in London about three vears with the Meat Board, and has proved himself a very efficient officer Because of Mr Forsyth's knowledge of the meat trade and overseas conditions, he was appointed a member of tha Imperial Economic Committee and his work thero apparently has justified the Imperial Government in appointing him as a member of the Marketing Board. fowl-wheat. MINISTER'S REPLY TO DEPUTATION. t ' (fhess association telegram.) WELLINGTON, June 22. I 'A deputation of poultry men waited on the Minister for Agriculture to-day, to ask that if there were a shortage, of ■wheat in the Dominion the duty on imported wheat Bhould be adjusted in their favour. The Minister declined to give any •undertaking of this kind at the moment, saying that he preferred to wait and see what the cost aotually amounted to before taking any action. He promised to investigate the complaint about the quaiity or poiiard, the allegation being that wheat husks were being put into the pollard. : MINING IN N.Z. • i WILD CAT SCHEMES. (PBOM OUR OWN COERESFONDENT.) LONDON, May 8. The New Zealand correspondent of .the "Mining Journal" writes at length ot the great success of the New Zealand Exhibition, and he Bends a summary, of the speeches at the Dominion Mining Conference dinner. In dealing -with the different expressions of opinion, especially with the utterances of Profossor Park and Mr Banks, the correspon- ' dent is wholly in accord with their views regarding clean mining. "Wild-cat schemes," he says, "continue to .appoar upon the New Zealand markets unmolested, some being fully subscribed; others go to allotment on a 10,000-Bhar6 s&lOi trustins that later the public will be induced to take up the unsold shares, and thus continue along lines of hope that something will turn up in the mine to croate publio excitement and set loose some of the 'wild-cat' shares. This class of mine promotion ha! been the greatest set-back to Now Zealand, It is time the Government took ft hand it . forcing such ventures out of action, and as ; iiisting approved mines that will stand a least a fair measure of promise and assur : ance that .such a mine is .worthy of.the.gon ernl public's consideration. "The Government of Now Zealand are onl; waking up in Respect to their-mining indus try, and-it is the general opinion that th ' present Minister for Minos, the Hon. G. J Anderson, is the only Minister that has a liv | grasp of the requirements of mining in thi Dominion. 'Credit must be given ;to the Go vernment for the liberal financial .assistance i which has been granted to several companie I during the past few years, though it canoo I be said that the companies so benefited wer I enabled to output metals in sufficient quan 1 tity to reimburse the Government by the ae nistance enumerated. (However, it is. satit I factory to know that liberal assistance i i offered by the Government to any legitimat mine that.warrants.the judicious expenditur [of capital." . ' frospecUng. j The correspondent is not altogether i i agreement with the Minister of Mines regard I - ing the proposed system of scientifio proi ; jiecting, which •he assert# will prove berii . ficial over the methods of the past. He pr< poses that prospecting parties should hav geologists closely aupervising all the wor undertaken by the party, and that their gei oral direction should be strictly adhered ti The "Mining Journal" representative n jrrets that, he cannot find any evidence in th Geological Department's work in past su veys ill New Zealand where any experience finer would find-gold,, yet the Minister, pri oses that a geologist should head the pro pecting parties, irrespective of the expei ence and ability of the miners comprisii , them. If the Minister would direct an. e I perienced prospector to undertake the sy , tematic exploration of any given area, and si . that the work was carried out aystematienll confidence is felt that good finds, of meta I would be recorded; then, when that had bei . accomplished, the geologist, could be broug, into the business, where his advice from ■ scientific viewpoint would probably prove < ; cervice. _ ZEALAND'S TRADI AN IRISH COMPARISON. (raoit oua ow* corbsspokdknt.) LONDON, May 8. The "Irish Independent" expresses t' Tiew that the progress of New-Zealand foreign trade has many features of latere to Ireland. ..... j « "This-.distant Dominion, though far larg than Ireland, has not a third of our pop . lation,'' it 'says. ■ "Since "1914 the val] 'lst iher exports has more", than, doubled, whj "her iinports have shown an even greater i crease. Since thi war, the improvement New Zealand's external trade has be; . steadily maintained. Thus, there has all t time been secured a favourably balance several millions. "To ua the chief Interest lies in the o Telopment of her trade with Great Britai more especially, in butter. Four-fifths Now Zealand's exports last year were tak -by Great Britain; in other words, her expc 'trade with Great Britain aloAe exceeded t - total export trade of the Saorstat dttrii -.'.the same year.- New Zealand supplied Gre Britain with 20 per cent, of the butt -*he required, while the Saorstat, with i - great geographical advantages, did not s . '•one pound of butter for every three so by the New Zealanders. Not the least n< .able fact iB that While-New Zealand's tot "exports of butter last year were leas-th '-'those for 1924, her trade with Great Brits j„ that commodity increased by over 20 t cent. The manufacture of casein has n< •grown to be a-considerable industry jn t ■Dominion, while the Saorstat has in the 1 year lost the one casein factory it p /. seised." . ■ . MILKING MACHINES. ' . "Implement, and . Machinery Review" v. forms its readers that from one to two tl i sand milking machines have been ' annually during the last five years in 1 • Zealand, and since 1919 the total numbei machines baa been doubled. There are i : about 15,000 installations in everyday i / enabling 63,000 cows to be milked simu ncously. Over 670,000 animals, half aggregate of dairy cows in the Dominion, dailv milked by tHe machines. Lab<Hir-j : ing'is described, as the main reason for extraordinary popularity ot machine milk EGG AUCTION, Messrs Kama 'Bros., Ltd., report that usual' weekly-auction"eale of Feather Bri guaranteed fresh egg® was held_in tl rooms, 158 Hereford street, yesterday af . noon. The following pricea were realised . Hen eggs, grade <2oz or «er) i2s .I ■ Lra egfPS second grade (under 2os) 2s M. PROPERTY SALE. NllcCrostie, Ltd., sold By pu ■tsterday, on the premises, No. •r street. Linwood, on account Boddinott, the property comprii of 8 rooms- and all convenien ■with section of 20.3 perches,'t