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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1928, Page 9

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand opens in Auckland on November 21st, and will probably last for eight days. The meeting place will be at St. David’s Church, Khyber Pass. About three hundred ministers and elders from all parts of the Dominion are entitled to attend the assembly, and it is probable that fully 250 will be present. The retiring Moderator is the Rev. Janies Aitken, of Gisborne, and his successor the Rev. Professor Hewitson, Master of Knox Theological College, Dunedin. Many important matters will come before * the Assembly. A successor will require to be appointed to Professor Hewitson at Knox College, also a sue-, cessor to Professor James Cumming, who is vacating the Chair of Hebrew at that instiution. Proposals will be submitted to reduce the overhead charges to the extent of £IOOO to £I2OO per annum. Suggestions are also to be made that the Rev. George Budd be general secretary of the church with headquarters at Wellington, that Mr. V. G. Chapman be i treasurer, and the Rev. A . Mawson foreign missionary secretary. A remarkable record: .of butter-faifc production is credited to a grade Jersey cow belonging to Mr H. J. Burrell, of Bunnvthorpe. The best was conducted bv the official . tester for the Ma a a wait u Herd Testing Association, 90 that its authenticity cannot be doubted ways the “Manawatu Stand--1 ” O'n September 4 last, the official test showed a production of 281-lb of milk for the morning and 291 b for Hie evening, a total of 57lib for the day, or an average of 17251 b for a month of 50 days. Coupled with tins higlii milk production was an abnormal butter-fa* test, .'the reading being no W'fl than 6.1. Tins figure gives a lmtter-fat productivity of 105.2251 b for tlie month, and thie. con,pled with milk production, is claimed by Mr Burnell to lie nearly a record for a grade cow for New Zealand, and one not excelled by nvanv pedigree beasts. The. record is all the more remarkable, considering that the beast is grazed with a herd of 70 'and bias received no roots or special feeding whatsoever. The cow had been in milk 37 days at the date of the tee*, and was machine milked throughout.