DAIRY PRODUCE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19675, 19 July 1929, Page 12

DAIRY PRODUCE.

LOCAL MARKETING METHODS. UNIFORM SCHEME SOUGHT. tFRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) PALMEBSTON NOBTH, July IS. With the object of arriving at a standardised price for dairy produce j sold for local consumption representaj tives of the dairy companies operating 1 in the Wellington, Wairarapa, southern Hawke's Bay, and Manawatu districts, met at Palmerston North this afternoon. Mr S. A. Broadbelt (Levin) prel sided over a large attendance. The companies represented at the meeting were the Levin, Kairanga, Cheltenham, Rangitikei, Waipukurau, Baetilii, Taihape, Morrinsville, Masterton, Shannon, Awahuri, Whakarongo, Kuku, Apiti, Konini, Tamaki, Pahiatua, and Manukau. The chairman stated that the meeting had been convened by the Manawatu and East Coast Dairy Companies' Association in order to arrive at some method of selling butter and cheese on the local market in order to eliminate the tendency to price-cutting, and put the business" on a uniform basis. The problem was admittedly a difficult one, and action would have to be unanimous by the companies. Subsequently any course of action determined upon might be extended to give it Dominion-wide application. The object sought was not to exploit consumers, but to obtain a fair price for produce on a parity equivalent to the prices ruling on the world's markets. The meeting discussed the matter in camera, and a committee of seven was set up to dra-w up a scheme to be submitted to the various companies.

GOLD MINING.

OPERATIONS IN GABRIEL'S GULLY. [THE PBESS Special Service.] DUNEDIN, July 18. The Gabriel's Gully Sluicing Company since 1912 has been winning gold from the tailings of this once famous goldfield, and in that period shareholders have received no less a sum than £29,000 in dividends. It has recently been found impossible to deal with the hard cemented deposits by means of sluicing, and under an agreement with the City Council governing the question of water rights the company is about to install an electric crushing plant. The project is one of importance to Otaga and the Dominion as a whole. It may even revolutionise goldmining in New Zealand generally. It is estimated that there is between 50 and 70 years' work ahead of the company in treating the large deposits of cement in Gabriel's Gully, especially those at the Blue Spur end.

NEW ZEALAND HEMP PAPER.

EXPERT'S FAVOURABLE REPORT (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —EI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPTBIGHT.) LONDON, July 17. Dr. von Ehrenthal, director of the Kothen Paper Technical Institute of Germany, on behalf of an Australian and New Zealand syndicate, carried out experiments in making paper from New Zealand hemp. He reports that it is better than the usual pulp from wood and grain, and equals the better quality paper manufactured from linen rags. It is suitable for copper plate printing, paper bank notes, fine note paper, and tissue cigarette paper, and could be used for improving medium paper from eucalyptus pulp.—Australian Press Association. WHEAT SHORTAGE INDICATED. CANADIAN PROSPECTS POOR. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPTBIGHT.) VANCOUVER, July 17. A message from Winnipeg states that with the wheat crop estimated at approximately half of the 1928 yield, employment officials state that only 25 per cent, of the harvest help required in 1928 will be needed to deal with this year's crop. Last year 50,000 harvest workers were brought from eastern Canada, and 15,000 from Britain. It was unlikely, they stated, that during the coming season any British labourers would be brought to Canada to deal with the harvest. A continuance of the terrific heat and drought on th<? Canadian prairies sent wheat upward 8$ cents a bushel to-day. —Australian Press Association, United Service. WILD TRADING IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 17. Future deliveries of wheat swept to new high levels, as prospects of a world shortage before the harvesting of the 1930 crop have arisen and the Canadian spring planting has shrunk under the high temperatures. Trading was wild to-day. Late estimates from north-western wheat areas indicated that there was a shortage of about 400,000,000 bushels in the North American spring crop.—Australian Press Association, United Service.

GROWERS BENEFIT BY ADVANCE (Received Julv ISth. 8.20 p.m.) CHICAGO, July 17. Wednesday's wheat advance of 8 cents per Dushel here, on the basis of 250,000,000 bushJs in Canada, added 20,000,000 dollars to the value of that crop, adding still more to the value of domestic spring wheat which is as yet unharvested, and an even bigger boon to south-western farmers, who have not sold their winter wheat.—Australian Press Association. DAIRY BOARD. (F&BSS ASSOCIATION rELJGHAM.) PALMERSTON NORTH, July 18. Dairying matters figured largely before the Manawatu producers to-day This morning Mr [orns, chairman of the Produce Board, addressed the suppliers of Rangiotu on the activities of the Board A resolution was carried expressing confidence in the Board. SHEEPSKINS. (rNITED P3ZSS ASSOCIATION—BX ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COi'TRIGHT.) (Received July 18th, 10.35 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July IS. Sheepskins—The market for general values m unaltered.—Australian Prees Association.