FARMING NOTES

Grey River Argus, 29 October 1932, Page 8

FARMING NOTES

There is an item of £25,400 in Industries and Commerce estimates this year described as being for the purpose of establishing a credit for thc purchase of fowl wheat in Australia for sale to New Zealand poultry farmers. It is estimated that thc sale of thc wheat to New Zealand consumers will produce a similar amount. The N.Z. Meat Producers ’ Board has made a grant of £250 for pig recording work in the Manawatu district. This oiler was made through the recently formed Pig Industry Advisory. In reply to a request that an enquiry be made into the cost of manufacturing binder twine, the Minister of Industries and Commerce wrote in the following terms: —“From information secured by my Department it would appear that the present prices of binder twine are not reasonably high. Manufacturers in New Zealand state that there has been a considerable drop in output of this commodity which has increased overhead charges. Do coming events cast their shadows before? Provision is made for an increased number of industrial disputes this year by making a vote of £2OOO for assessors of conciliation councils, against an expenditure of £395 last year. * * * A recent meeting of the Electoral Committee of the Wheat Marketing Board in Canterbury representing over 6000 wheat farmers affirmed the necessity for the retention of the present sliding scale of wheat duties in the national interest in order to maintain supplies of necessary feed stuffs for other important primary industries, to ensure the production of an adequate supply of bread stuff for our people, and to avoid widespread increase in unemployment. The British National Union has in contemplation the organisation of an Empire Farmers’ Tour of the Union of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia during the early part of 1933. In the event of sufficient patronage being secured, and providing existing exchange difficulties assume more normal proportions, the party will leave Southampton about the middle of February and return early in May. A full two months will be spent in travel throughout the sub-continent. Starting from Capetown, the itinerary will embrace all the principal South African cities and towns, as well as many of the more picturesque and historic parts of the country. Many farmers in New Zealand no doubt remember the hurried visit through New Zealand of the British National Union party in the early part of 1930.