Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 232, 13 September 1922, Page 4

Local and General.

A notice outside a Wellington city broker’s office on Monday announced the market price for marks at 4200 to £l. The Manawatu-Oroua Power Board is calling for applications for the position of secretary, at a salary of £350 per annum. Mr. M. Wells, Cambridge Dairy Factory, informs the “New Zealand Herald” of receipt of an offer of Is B|d per pound for butter for America for delivery up to mid-October. The latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette contains the notification of 13 bankruptcies, of which nine are in the North Island. The majority of the bankrupts are farmers. Two very fine herd records are sent to us from Ngaere, says file Hawera “Star.” In one case 42 cows returned 14,9791 b. fat, 1571 b. per cow; and 14 cows on 28 acres gave 52001 b. fat, 3711 b per cow, and 185jlb. per acre. Glasgow municipality is reputed to be one of the best—Glasgowegians will doubtless say the best —managed in the world. Yet the corporation accounts for its last financial year show a deficit of very close on half a million sterling on the municipal gas undertaking. At the meeting of the Manawatu Co-operative Utility Poultry Society, the secretary (Mr. T. Btuce) mentioned that the society was now sending its eggs to Wellington by motor lorry instead of by rail. Besides 4d per crate being saved in freight, the breakages had been reduced to a minimum. Arrangements for the labour dance in the Assembly Hall, 20th Sept., are well in hand, and everything points to it being n decided success, there will be cards, draughts and chess for those who do not dance. The Hinemoa Orchestra will supply the music. For a sack of cauliflowers in Auckland last week the producer received Is 6d; for carting the sack a short distance from the railway station to the market the buyer paid Is 6d, so the owner of the vehicle received just as much for ten minutes’ work as did the producer for his labour and the use of his ground for at least three months. “You might suggest to this council to put tail lights on cows,” humorously twitted a member as the traffic inspector at Hamilton was departing after explaining the effect of the new bylaws to the Motor Cycle Club. The speaker contended that the wandering stock of Hamilton was a menace requiring more consideration than the “tabooing” of pillion riding. The Suffolk has fairly established its claim by tests in various countries, to be the most prolific of all breeds of sheep. A Canterbury achievement this season by a small flock of the blackfaces would seem, however, like constituting a record. The Suffolk purebred flock of Mr. George Gould, at Conte Island, comprises 25 ewes. On Monday 62 lambs had been tailed from 22 ewes. The next morning another ewe was keeping a worried eye on a family of four healthy youngsters, leaving two more ewes. Excluding these, the lambing works out at the phenomenal percentage of just on 287. which substantially exceeds any achievement of which there is a published record There seems to be every prospect of leading bands of the Dominion participating in the North Island Brass Bands’ Association contest, which is to be held in New Plymouth in February next (says the Taranaki “Herald.”) The local secretary of the contest committee (Mr. E. L. Humphries) has had numerous inquiries regarding accommodation from bands in different parts of the Dominion. Auckland Artillery Band are among those who are seeking accommodation, and it is stated that the Woolston (Christchurch) Band has decided to attend the band contest to be held at New Plymouth in preference to that at Dunedin because the New Plymouth contest will be held in the open air.