NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21632, 8 February 1945, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Farmers Satisfied Farmers in the Wairarapa are well satisfied with farming conditions this year. Fat lamb killings have been most satisfactory and weights well up. White-face lambs, which take longer to mature, will kill well next month if the present dry spell continues. Wheat crops are promising and the heads are filling out. If the present favourable season continues a bumper harvest should result. Crops of red clover are also doing well. Hay has taken a long while to crop till a few weeks ago due to the moist season. The growth of grass was remarkable. Dispute With Father "You are prohibited and have acted in a very unwise manner,” stated Mr. G. Hallyard, J.P., when Karam Sessine, aged 30 years, a New Zealander born of Syrian parents, pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language in a public place. It had been stated earlier by Sergeant C. H. Readon that the accused whilst a prohibited person had been drinking yesterday and the offence arose from a dispute he had with his father, who was evidently endeavouring to get him home. The accused was fined £2. A second charge, that of a breach of his prohibition order, was adjourned till next Wednesday. With Mr. Hillyard on the bench was Mr. G. D. Muirhead, J.P. Black Market Hay An Auckland resident who recently returned from Australia after making a fairly comprehensive tour of New South Wales said that the recognised price for black market hay was £7B a truck. He was not sure how many tons went to the truck, but in any case the figure of £7B was now more or less the standardised price on the illegal market, and hay-hungry farmers who simply had to have fodder at any price paid it. Even the hay handled by the Government at times found its way on to the black market, the farmer who received it being unable to resist the attractive price offered by the black market operator, who in turn, sold it to another farmer at a still more attractive price.