WHEAT DISEASE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18942, 5 March 1927, Page 12

WHEAT DISEASE.

DEPARTMENTAL INVESTIGATION The disease which has attacked wheat in the Hakaia district is being made the subject of an investigation by officers of the Department of Agriculture. Yesterday Mr A. H. (Vlia\no. Director of the 1' ii'lds iHvi>ini». Mr (». 11. (uiiningliafii, (JouTiiiiicm Myoj.'iyiM. and .Air J. H. Hadficld, Instructor i" Ai;ricult',ire, of the C'hristchiirch office nMlie Dcpartiiiont, visited the Jlakuia district In inspect ihe infected i rojis. BUTTER-FAT CLAIM. DAIRY CO.-.II'AXY STEP. Suppliers of Inittcr-fat lo dairy factories will be interested in tin* rfsuit ol a case which tamo before -Mr 11. A. Your.;;. in the Lower Court yesterday, when Walter Frederick Kerr, ;arnier, of Oxford, sued tin: Avon Dairy Company, 1,t<1., lor ill fs 7d, balance on purchase price on J IoS pound-, of butier-tat. This sum represented a boutis of •}(! per pound. .Mr .\. !•'. Wright appeared for the plaintiff, and .Mr A. i. Donnelly rcpicseiKcd the defendant company. The .statement of claim set out that the company went into liquidation in November, 19-o. but Mr Justice MacCirejjor parted Kerr kavc to bring the action notwithstanding the liquidation. Kerr, in the MiL'l-'io season, supplied the butter-fat, receiving advances, the Bver.ij;e of which was Is 3i[(l a lb. 'I he company had noL paid any filial payment or bonus to its suppliers for thai season. Tito statement of claim set out that the ruling price paid by tiie mi'joi-ity of companies 111 Canterbury for thai, season was Is 7Jtl. Kerr contended ' hat a final payment was duo to him and that 3d a lb was a reasonable sum.

The que-tioi; :>.t if sue was whether tho Is Jjd was ;i liiiiil payment or whether tlio suppliers of IniLUr-tut were entitled to follow the sale of tiie butter ami recover such further .sums as the butter realisations justified, or whether any further payment after the. advance was merely a bonus payablo at tho discretion of the company. In tho present case between £4O(K) and £.3000 is involved in respect to all the suppliers of Use company, but otiier companies are interested in the derision. The plaintiff asked thai the amount of the clain: be increased to i'(is lOd, making tho sum s}d per pound instead of 3d. The request was granted. Counsel for the plaintiff further applied for an adjournment sine die m order that the ease might bo brought before the Supreme Court. '.Hie ."Magistrate granted tin; application. DAIRYING INDUSTRY. PRIME MINISTER'S REPORT URGED. (mess association teleorau.) AUCKLAND, March 4. A conference of dairy company director*, representing companies in tho South Auckland district, with an annual output of 5800 tons of dairy produce, was liefS at Morrinsville today. A resolution was passed unanimously urgently appealing to the Prima Minister, in view of the unsettled conditions of tho English market, and large accumulations of. New Zealand butter, to mako a, report to the dairying industry concerning his personal investigations of the conditions obtaining in London.

BANK OF AUSTRALIA. Cable advice has been received from Melbourne to the effect that the new insuc of 500,000 ordinary shares of 10s each hns been over-subscribed. FEILDING STOCK SALE. (PBES9 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) FEILDING, March 4. Thore was a large yarding of sheep of all classes at the Feilding sale. Fats sold about on a par to a ehade better tban last week. Good ewes wero keenly sought and sold at prices slightly advanced on last week's rates. Rape lambs (of which not many were yarded) also sold very well, but storo lambs were inclined to drag. A few small pens of two-tooth wethers sold well. A big line of four-tooth to five-year ewes from Pahiatua was passed in at 19s, this being the only bid. These were exceptionally good sheep, and on values ruling at the sale should have made more money. Prices: Fat lambs 21s to 24s 3d, fat ewes 14s 2d to 16a, fat wethers 23s to 25s 6d, fat blackfaeed 10a to 25s Bd, two-tooth ewes, small, 16s 7d to 17s 7d, medium 22s 4d to 235, good 26s Bd to 26s 7d, small four-tooth ewes 18a 6d, medium three to four-year ewes 17s 6d, four to flve-year owes Us 2d to 20* 6d, five-year ewes 15a 8d to 16s Bd, old ewes 5s to lis 4d, fair b.f.„ lambs 15s 4d to 16s lOd, small to medium 9a 6d to 14s 3d, medium Romney wether lambs lis 3d, medium Romney wether ewes 14s 4d, twotooth wethers 18s 4d to 20* Id, small fourtooth 19s 2d, b.f. two-tooth 16s 9d.

RANGIORA HORSE FAIR. About 80 horses were entered at the monthly fair nt Rangiora yesterday. The demand was good, consequently few animals failed to change hands. Best five to seven-year-old draughts brought from £3B to £42, seven to ten-year-old draughts £l6 to £25, aged draughts £5 to £l2, and hacks £2 to £5. LINSEED. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated August 2nd, from Calcutta, with regard to the linaeed market: —"Linseed: Wo quoto £IC 17a 6d for linseed per ton net, C. and F. Sydney, for immediate delivery. The market is steady, but quiet." DAIRY PRODUCE. The Nct Zealand Loan nml Mercantile Agency has meived the following tabled advice from London:—Dairy Produce—For New Zealand butter and cheese, quotations are unchanged. The market is very slow. Dalgety ami Co. have received :hc following cabled advico from London Butter—The market is alow. There arc second-hand sellers of New Zealand finest at 160 ato 1645. We quote Danish 1665. The New Zealand Dairy Board minimum prico , for finest is 168s, first grade lG6s, finest Australian unsalted 162s to ICGs, salted-156a to 160s. Cheese—The market for New Zealand ia dull and Canadian is quiet. We quote New Zealand Dairy Board minimum prices:—Finest whito 925, finest coloured 925, first-grade whito 91s, firstgrade coloured 91s, Canadian spot white 90s to 100s, coloured 90s to 100s, c.i.f. 80s. TALLOW. The X»w Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company liaa received tho following cabled advice from London: —Tallow—We quite prosent c.i.f. and e. values for the following descriptions of tallow:— Fine mutton 37s per cwt, good beef SSa per cwt, rnixcJ 35s Cd per cwt. The market ie quiet. PROPERTY SALES. Jones, McCrostie Company, Ltd., report that, following on their auction sale on Saturday, they sold by private treaty, on account o: Mr J. Rowlands, tho property situated No. 30 Hinau street, Lower Ricoarton, comprising a four-roomed bungalow together with 35 perches of lar.d, to Mr Jaggar; and on account of Mrs Messervey, the property situated No. 730 Ferry road and comer of Bamford street, Wools ton, to Mr Newey. 1