FARMERS MEET

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 55, Issue 32713, 15 May 1946, Page 9

FARMERS MEET

COROGLEN-WHENUAKITE A'FF’AIRIS of the district The members of the CoroglenWhenuakite Farmers’ Union met in the Whenuakite Centennial Hall recently. Mt H. Hinds presided over a fair attendance of members. Exception was taken to the prohibitive price of fodder during the present abnormal conditions. It was felt that the Government should subsidise the price of fodder from the funds of farmers’ money under its control and established for such an emergency. The branch delegates, Messrs K. A. Hamilton and G. C, Donovan gave an account of the last sub-provincial meetings.

The gross disparity in the salary of the Whenuakite postmistress and the Coroglen postmistress was mentioned and enquiries are being made. An old grievance, the county council’s slowness of answering correspondence was raised and further instances given. A petition signed by nearly all the ratepayers and electors in the Coroglen-Whenuakite area and sent in over nine months ago,' had not been acknowledged. 'Letters dealing with local affairs especially the progress or rather lack of it m carrying out the proposed Hahei-Hot Water Beach deviation had remained unanswered for months.

The block subscription test case was raised 'by Mr James Hamilton, a detailed and up-to-date account of which was given in reply. •

Mr IP. Kelly asked if farmers in the area who desired to herd test next season would get in touch with him.

The changes time brings? Halfa century ago no one with any pretensions to respectability would have dreamt of smoking’in the street, and few clubs or private houses possessed smoke-rooms. To-day as many pipes and cigarettes are smoked out of doors as indoors, and every club and every large private residence rejoices in its. smoke-room. But public taste is more fastidious than of old in the choice of tobacco, and the, best brands now command the largest sale. This is especially noticeable in New Zealand, where “toasted” has become so highly popular. Go where you will, you’ll find the five famous toasted brand's, Cut Plug No. 10. (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold on sale, also tailormades. “Once a smoker always a smoker,” it is said, and it’s no less true than once a smoker of toasted always a smoker of toasted. For there’s nothing to compare with it for flavour and bouquet, also for purity and harmlessness. The toasting eliminates the nicotine!