INDUSTRIES COMMITTEE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 22 May 1919, Page 5

INDUSTRIES COMMITTEE

FURTHER EVIDENCE TAKEN

IBY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

WTLLINGTON, May 21. -\ir o industries Committee enqivrv Mr Singieton, assistant-daector of tne -Uairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, said that at the end of last S tkle-Were 7-93'215 cows f<*r the iyib-17 season, and the estimated average yield was 161.81b butter-fat, as » j4Hlb » 1910, an increa4 of , 19. (lb of butter-fat, winch, represented an increased export value of £1,276,000 j blades an increase in the by-products! A\ itness stressed the value of the 1 special purpose" cow, which tended I xt° %? t A he^? crease in land values. i. Mr j1- A. Huggins, Assistant Secre- , tary ot the Post and Telegraph Depart ment, gave evidence regarding Lit macic stamping machines, 520 of whicti TcJn USe + l n Wellmgbm. The absent or color in the impression made b y the Sters T^? Clerk! T ho d*a*t with1 D^irr,?^ the Uf e of the machine the! vS- ™ ™»s lpsmg about £1209 a ?«« •■ machl^e was a considerable sity of firms keeping accounts. Answering a question he said firms were un aga lnsfc the Department .because they Sam,! r6CeiV6 any ««»»«««« for Twin?" S—*' direct «r of the Dairy Pioduce Division ot the Agricultural Department spoke of the maWfaSe mnSTi frhlCh. migbt by making itfree to anybody Mr R. W. de Montalk/ architect, sa>d erSed Wfn no' doubt could be erected m permanent materials at no grater cost than the present rates for 5 ** ™od, provided wffideS capital was found to deal with th© enterprise on a fair scale. He sugited that the use of such materials, mstead ZJl mh fei;U W°Uld b* for th^ eoononuc sist^n the conservation of timber sup- ■ Mr H. J H. Blow, Secretary for Mines, said the present shortage of coal' was due to the lack of miner!. Ev^ryl mmmg company in New Zealand wS short of miners. The mimbei . of m engaged m mining was decreasing, and it was^ifficul t to mor© cotld be done..to attract men to the mines; bu? done som^tluiig would have to be Representatives of the seed trade asked for duties against foreign seeds pre--6 l and !Packel Tead * for »fe, and £L£*- + T Se ' frOnV du^ of rt«in # m/ tt<?rJ sucl M catalogues. Packet* of seed came in free of duty, but if a New Zealand seedsman wanted1 empty packets for hi 3 own seed, he had to pay duty on them