WILL THERE BE BREAK-UP

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12398, 10 November 1934, Page 12

WILL THERE BE BREAK-UP

DEMOCRACY IN BRITAIN. CONFLICT OF BLOCS PREDICTED. LONDON, Oct. 2. Disclosures from a- well-informed source have jnsfc been made bore suggesting that democratic government in Britain runs risk of being overthrown, unless far-reaching political changes can he effected in the near future. The source is Lord Allen of Hurtwood whoso position as a representative of the small group of the British Prime Minister’s personal followers ;in the House of Lords, enables him to speak with authority. Lord Allen has been looking into the prospects of the coming general election an event which under the '-•xisting law, has to take place before. October 27, 1936, and bo finds them disquieting. His conclusions are to be found in lbs new volume, “Britain's Political 'Future.”

As events are now shaping, Lord Alton estimates that the present National Government forces in the House of Commons—now over 500 ♦strong—will be reduced 1o not .more than 325 (a bare majority), ninetenths of them Conservatives and 100 of them “diehard*,” or Right wing extremists. The bulk of the remainder, be finds, are likely to bo Labor, with only a very small Liberal group. In such a Parliament, bo says, “political maneuvering would fake precedence over clcar-cut action.” The Government, continually assailed by a. powerful opposition, would be driven more and more into the arms of the diobnvds. The sympathies of those diehnrds are with Fascism. “It,” says Lord Allen, “they, can once point to a. state of paralysis in the Parliamentary machine, 'then Tt is idle to expect British democracy to bo preserved while it is not impossible that it may even bo ioreiblv violated.”

lie blames this situation- largely upon the loss of popular confidence which labor has incurred in conpegnonce of its harboring in it- s ranks ■extreme Socialists like Sir Stafford Oripps, who have alarmed the electorate by toying with iwhat is thought to he very much of the nature' of a dictatorship of the Left. His remedy is for progressive moderates of all parties, including the Conservatives, to get together at once and form a new bloc. Such a bloc, he thinks, if it strictly excluded ■extremists both of! the Right and ol the Left, might secure >such overwhelming support at the polls as to make democracy safe. His proposal ts ; attracting, attention, but the pros* peefo. of its adoption soon enough materially ’to effect the outcome of the next election are not regarded ns good.

MODERNISED LIVE STOCK MARKETING. -

HOW IT IS DON,E

We have one working example of the '•'concentrated isale” in. Scotland; at Merklands Wharf, Glasgow, where the Irish and Canadian cattle are sold, the cattle all being put through one auction ring (states an exchange.) There may be 600 cattle and five firms operating. The one with tho largest number of cattle starts first and receives an allowance of time according to the number of cattle he , has to sell. Thu*, if he has 200 cattle he may get 45 minutes’ selling time. He starts, his starting time is taken and when his 45 minutes have elapsed he has to stop and leave the ring and! the next salesman follows. The same process goes on until all the five salesmen have each had a turn at the ring, their time allowI auce varying according to the numI her of caittlo they have. When the last of the five has completed hi s first ! turn in tho ring, the first salesman ' comes hack and starts on his second I turn and so on until all the cattle j are sold. The isystem works real well and i s ' popular bith with sellers and buyers. It is a real “concentrated sale”; the ' seller gets the full benefit of the concentrated buying power, the buyer gets full choice °f all the cattle on offer through one ring and the business is got through rapidly and efficiently. It is quite usual for 300 cattle to he sold hv auction in one hour.

TTIE GREEDY PIG COSTS MONEY.

STRONG SHOULD BE DIVIDED

FROM THE WEAR

Not every pigkeeper realises, perhaps, how much money he may lose through the medium of tho greedy pig. This is the pig which, in the endeavour to get as much a* possible for itself pushes out its weaker companions so that they can never feed in comfort, while at the same time a good part of the food at every meal is pushed overboard and wasted. When there are one or more greedy or self-assertive pigs in a batch the scrambling at the trough., winch can never be entirely avoided is exaggerated to a serious degree. But a, good deal ran be done to remedy matters, and tho first thincr to see to is the sorting out- of pigs in each batch into sizes, states the “New Zealand Dairy Exoortcr.”

It may he necessary to divide them up into as many as three grades, but usually it will he enough to separate the strong ones from the weak. It is rarely the case that pigs, even of the same litter, progress in growth at an even rate. Very soon two or throe will take the lead of the re.-f, and the others will-suffer if all are kept together for any length of time.

In any ease, if pays to grade pigs according to size and strength rather than age from time to time, more especially when they are in confined quarters. Every pig, in fact, must have a chance to get its fair 'share, and that can never he the case when there are certain pigs in the batch which are endeavouring all the time .to have things their own way.

THE UNWANTED POTATO

MILLS ERECTED TO TURN IT INTO ACCOUNT.

In agricultural circles in the Isle of Ely there i/s- intense interest in the project to erect, equip and operate mills near March to manufacture and market farina--and dextrine.

These two products arc directly derived; from potatoes and England uses approximately 125,000 toils- of farina and dextrine but lia s been obliged hitherto to import the whole of it from the Continent.

The mill is designed for an output of 14,500 tons of dextrine, which will necessitate the -supply ■ of about 75,000 tons of potatoes a year. Already many hundreds of contractu have been entered with farmers and email holders -in the Eastern Counties. Five tons of potatoes make one ton of farina and one ton of farina yields nearly 191- cwt. of dextrine. Farina is used extensively in the manufacture of and: as an ingredient in food products' such as confectionery, cake mixture/! ; chocolates, boiled sweets, biscuits, etc., while dextrine has unde uses in the textile trades in the treatment and weaving of yarns and woven fabrics and in the color printing fabrics. Another big market for dextrine is l n the manufacture of adhesives for labels for canned and bottled goods. Bookbinders, papermakers, carton manufacturers and cardboard boxmakers are also very large customers. The mill and plant will cost about '£l2o, 000.'