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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 July 1925, Page 9

The English estate of the late Sir John Salmotid, of New Zealand, was valued at £2122. At a special meeting of the Racing Club this morning a resolution was passed expressing deep regret at the death of Mr Whyte, and appreciation of his great and able services, and conveying sincere sympathy to Mrs Whyte and family. It was further decided to abandon the club’s annual ball .(says a Wellington Press AssociatioiWuessage. Mr. E. K. Cameron, who has recently become a partner in the firm of Messrs. Burdekin, Walk ley and Cameron, was on Tuesday afternoon presented with a solid leather suit-ease by ill© staff of the Hawena bra,noli of the Farmers’ Coop’. The presentation was made by the general manger, Mr. J. G. Niohol, who referred to the valuable services rendered by Mr. Cameron, during the fifteen months he had been connected wilt lx tih© firm. A local firm, Messrs. Lnurenson) and Innes, has received a somewhat unique communication, an inquiry from a resident of Honolulu, for information regarding prices of land in New Zealand, also some particulars regarding employment and purchase of live stock, as the applicant was contemplating .settlement :n this country. The communication was addressed to the firm at Christchurch, but was' forwarded on. by the postal authorities there to the right town. Throe horses drawing a dray got out of control in midstream at Miles Ford, in the Wanganui River, Taumarumii, and one of the animals was drowned. A young man, W. Woolston, was driving the team. He unhitched the team and the leaders together went down stream, where there began a struggle for the survival of the fittest. One of the animals became entangled in the harness and was drowned. The other horse was almost beaten, when a young man named Giles, of Manunui, swam out fully clothed and dived to unhitch the harness, a task he succeeded in accomplishing after several attempts. The live horse then walked ashore in an exhausted state. In the meantime the shaft horse back at the .scene of the accident had been taken ashore by Woolston. Woolston and Gi'es were not injured, but suffered from the icy cold water of the river.

“The season about to close ha® been one of the best experienced by fanners for years, more particularly so far as quantities are concerned,” observed a business man interested in dairying. “The only parte that have suffered in the whole of the Dominion are Otago and! Southland, where adverse dry conditions were experienced; and the outputs there have come down by about fifty per cent. A.s for cheese values, they have been exceedingly good, and remarkably steady, and evidently sprculatonsi have, not troubled, the markets.” Proceeding, he said: “If the dairymen are not •satisfied with this season’© returns, at is hard to imagine, they will ever be satisfied; and something must he wrong with their land values and expenses.generally. Alter all, consideration has to be given to consumers «« well as to producers, and it is safe to venture -the suggestion that the consumers have paid quite enough for their butter and cheese, considering the low rates of wages paid at Home. If we in New Zealand can only come down, to fair land valuer-,” lie: added, “there is next, the slightest doubt that we will, have great -prosperity in the future. The only trouble to-day is that land values are. altogether too high.’.’