AUCTIONS. H. MATSON AND CO. 'KEEP UP STANDARD" IS THE WARNING. TOO LIGHT. BAD FOR EXPORT. From time to time sectional interest* advocate the lowering of the minimum lamb standards lor export from Australia and New Zealand. "Country Lile" has always emphasised the attendant dangers. Mr E. P. Allen, Federal Department of Marketing Chief Veterinary Officer, in his latest report from London, re-echoes the warning. Mr Allen says, however, that special consignments, especially marked, might in particular cases be permitted. His report is as follows: "I have been requested to refer to the shipment of very light or poor quality lambs. If not a regulation, it is a rule that Australian lambs under 'a minimum weight are not permitted to be exported, and it is conADDINGTON MARKET. Forward to H. MATSON and CO. PERSONAL AND DIRECT SERVICE. aidcred by some in the trade that this imposes an unnecessarily hard condition. "I do not like to recommend the shipment of lambs Of inferior quality, and with the -exception of a small proportion of unusually small but well-shaped and proportioned carcases, extremely light lambs can only be regarded as of Inferior quality, but there is undoubtedly a market for this type of lamb, particularly in such centres as Cardiff .and Manchester, and advantage is being taken of it by South American shippers. "I/have seen on Smithfield some "Artigas' lambs (Morris and Co., Uruguay), which weighed as little as 01b. Cartainly these were seized, and condemned, but I gathered that fheir seizure occasioned some surprise as it - was remarked that they sold like "hot cakes" at other centres, and I cannot imagine any colonial shipper being desirous of shipping carcases such as these. "I enquired of Colonel Young, the Chief -Inspector, whether he thought it - advisable 'to recommend the shipment of light carcases to Cardiff, Liverpool, and Manchester, and his r%ply was to the effect that so long as the carcases .show no signs of emaciation or hydnemia, he would not advise against their shipment to any centre where there was a .market for them. .. ''Colonel Young added that he has found ■ -the. best.method of arriving at any estimate of emaciation*is to thaw some carcases and to break them up. So long as the" fat (if there is any) or other intermuscular tissue is firm and there la-no gelatinous, substance present it can be taken that the inspecting authori--tioa .will be satisfied. CARE IS VITAL. "The "matter is one in. which I think shippers'might be guided by their agents who. I think, would be less embarrassed by the shipment of .such lambs than that of summer lambs. And in view of the fact that the De- '. partment of Markets could demand guarantees, .. ii"stfeh. are thought necessary, as to the destination of such lambs, the matter should '•'receiw every consideration. I would not sugjest -lowering twisting standards, which in some, instances I think .are still too low, but if as is ctaimed, there is a market at , certain centres for a particular Ipw type of lamb, 1 do not think it would be inadvisable to "permit, the shipment of Such. It could, be regarded as a special grade for * particular market,, and it could be distinctively marked as such in the same manner as Eastern and Continental grades." SOLIDIFIED MOLASSES. Don'* '"be without it. Put up in -steel, makes iteasy to handle. Don't wait until the WINTER is upon you—now is the time-J-sena order to H.-MATSON and CO. Have it in all paddocks. Yon will find it a boon, and a blessing. , . . WAITED— A'GREAT MAN. I .In 4 jobless world, where every vacancy is ;. 4is*ment asking for * great, man; colour of no importance. There ar«> any number of apwe can see them lining up daily; Chiang Kai-shek, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Os.i"lWH« -Jtosley/ Senator Hiram Johnson —j "What! will lthe line stretch out till the <»crack of doom!" Beside the many who have .. prepared their own credentials, there are ' others- whoso friends and admirers thrust I - them forward/ though reluctant. I venture to . doubt-whether, the Employer of Great Men will'find any of the* candidates equal to the duties of the post,- which requires somebody combining sjho intellectual sweep of Alexander the 'energy of Napoleon, and the faith and win-powe*-of Gordon. -Genera] Gordon would bo my selection. How quickly he would re''organise- his.' "ever'-victorious army" and bring the tifit East to order! _ ' Whichever w av we turn, however hopefully we' weigh - One man after another in .the scales with' Which one and all of us dare to .esjtimato the value of our fellows, there is J4 ajwaya/oomethinjt found to be lacking in the ; nt*T of. to-day that the leaders Of the Victorian age—so to designate a* period well , within the memory of many of us—possessed In superlative degree. "What this quality was <"* "open to discussion. Perhaps it was 'faith — '.■ faith in divine guidance of mundane affairs, or..at lowest, faith'in themselves. Whether wo take a practical or ■* mystical 'view of-world affairs there can be, no doubt Ihat the, time Is ripe for tho emergence of ..'.'» QrCat Man. The'sterility Of an age so rich In. scientific discovery and> in .material progress Is a> disconcerting problem; but the fact remains that at the present moment, even when (he noisy folk are counted in,'we can search .in Vain- for anybody above the level of mediocrity in -.any department of human activity, apart, perhaps from that of tho application of sew scientific knowledge ' ftt.practical uses. '"SueTi" barren patches have been recorded often enough' before in history; fortunately they prove, later on, to have been the seed time, to he followod in due course by an out- ',, burst of flower; and fruit, a renaissance- of humanity. It is our bad luck to have to live through "the winter of our discontent." 1 THE JOB'S THE THING! f ("Mercantile fjaxette," 3/2/32.) ( If you hold a high position 1 Which glints with patronage, • And friends are in abundance And yon are oil the rage;. (And you're pointed out and honoured Wherever you appear. Don't forget that your position Is what they hold most dear. , If yon should be in any doubt - That this could- fietet he, To prove it to yourself, old chap, ~ 'Just lose your job, and see. XT D I P V » I PV D I PUSIP Elliot Bros. Udip is , .19/6 per cfese Cheaper. 19/8 per case Cheaper. 10/6 per case Cheaper. PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW. H. MATSON and CO., - - N.Z. Distributor*.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20510, 1 April 1932, Page 18
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