COLT DESTROYED

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 11

COLT DESTROYED

MISHAP AT RANDWICK

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(Received November 11, 2.30 p.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day.

Mr. J, T. Jamieson's promising two-year-old colt Presto, by Captain Bunsby from Rapide, broke his leg while training at Randwick and had to be destroyed. Presto dislodged his rider and collided with a fence. He had never raced.

U.S.A. FARMERS

IN A BAD WAY

ROOSEVELT PLAN UNPOPULAR

.A farmer himself, and a keen observer of men and things, Mr. James Lobb, of Waitahuna, Lawrence, who returned from a tour of America by' the Makura today, had some interesting things to say of the meat position in the United States. The Roosevelt Plan, he says, has by no means pleased all sections of the rural community, and is not at ail popular in the West.

■ Seventy-five years of age, Mr. Lobb, who has just completed his ninth tour of the world, has found a.policy of thrift and work.the source of his own prosperity. Coming to the South Island fifty-two years ago, with no capital but his hands and a keen mind, at the age of 23 he was a farm labourer, but it was not long before he was managing the farms of others, and in a comparatively short time he owned a farm of 1600 acres. In 1919 he sold out, and commenced to travel. It lookpd at one time as though the farm ; would come back on his hands,.but hej had-confidence *in,those to .whom he.l had sold, and left them to pay off the sum in their own time, with the result .that they emerged from their troubles. Now retired, Mr. Lobb's outlook on life is as fresh as ever.

:!.In his opinion the trouble with the farming community in the U.S.A. was not one of over-production, but of bad distribution; ' There is now a great ■shortage of meat in the United States, and .-he is of the opinion that there should; be openings for New Zealand "lamb and pork in both the U.S.A. and ■Canada. Pork is very dear, 48 cents (a- pound, being paid for1 bacon in the .U.S.A. This is largely the result of the killing off of sows under the overproduction slogan. There arc many thousands of acres of maize not yet harvested in America. It was selling j for £4 a ton in England. On the whole j things are not at ail good in America, i There is a distinct shortage of butter as well as of meat. The Americans cannot make butter as well as it is made in bulk in New Zealand. The question of the tariff on imported foodstuffs is playing a large part in politics. THE TARIFF ISSUE, Some of the fanners, are doing fairly j well,, but others are in a very bad way, and wish to keep up the tariff, on) imports, while the consumers, who! must have the foods which cannot now I ■be produced in the United States in sufficient quantity, object to paying high tariffs on .the imported foods. This has been brought out in elections in both Canada and the U.S.A., those who got in on the high protective tariff having been put out on that very issue. There is no doubt that the United States will have to import a good deal of meat. This will assist the Canadian farmers. There are farms in Canada killing 800 hogs a day. Nevertheless he considers that there will be a need to import overseas meat if the millions of the United States are to be fed, and this also applies to Canada.

Prosperity will not return fujly to the United States under the present policy of initiating huge works with borrowed money while the productiveness of the country is being cnecked. Amongst the huge jobs that are in progress are bridges across the Golden Gate at San Francisco, and between Oakland and San Francisco. The Golden Gate bridge will have the longest suspension single span in the world, and will also be the highest, 746 feet, costing 33,500,000 dollars. The Oakland bridge will have a length o£ 43,500 feet, and will cost 77,000,000 dollars. Amongst existing bridges that amazed him was one across Salt Lake, 26 miles long. Salt Lake is 90 miles long and 40 miles at its greatest width, and from one end of the bridge-the other cannot be seen. It is a railway trestle bridge. An enormous bridgebuilding programme is under way. Mr. Lobb attributes the world's troubles to spending money before it ■has been earned. He considers that his own position is due to never spending Is'until he had earned 2s 6d.