LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4473, 21 November 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The estate of the late Dr. Andrew Seymour Brewis, of Hamilton, who died on November 2, has been sworn for probate at under £43,000. The estate has been left to members of the family.

The manager of the Otorohanga factory of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company stated that the volume of cream received so far this season is 50 per cent, above the record production up to 20th November. 1932. The unusually early calving season, early spring growth of pastures, and the suitable weather conditions for cream production are the main factors responsible for the heavy yield.

For October supply the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company will pay to its suppliers 9d per lb for finest quality butter-fat for buttermaking, free of share credits. For first-grade butter-l’at for cheesemaking 9y4d per lb will be paid. Last November 9V2d per lb was paid for superfine butter-fat for buttermaking and 10%d per lb for finest quality butter-fat for cheese manufacture.

An indication of improvement in the timber trade was the departure on Wednesday afternoon from Hokitika of a special train drawing about 80,000 feet of timber (reports the Hokitika correspondent of the Grey River Argus). Most of the timber, including a good proportion of red pine, was for shipment to Australia by the Kalingo.

Two pots of ragwort were on view at a meeting of the Papakura Town Board. They had been sent by the Agricultural Department for the purpose of showing to all and sundry the weed that is causing so much discussion at the present moment. Quite a number of people do not know a ragwort when they see it. These pots are to be placed in some Papakura shop windows for exhibition only, there to be watered until they flower, when they will be destroyed.

“An analysis of over 100 South Island farm accounts for the past years shows that although about 30 per cent, of the farmers whose accounts were analysed held mortgages on other investments and on balance no liability, yet 90 per cent, of the total lived to a greater or lesser extent on capital,” states the farm economics section of the report on research work carried out at Lincoln College. The average return on capital invested in land, the report adds, amounted to 2 per cent., or, in eluding wages of management, represented a loss, while the average return on investments made elsewhere amounted to 4 per cent. Good farm mortgages proved the best investment.

With the reputation of having tattooed some 300 Maori women in the Taranaki district, a complete set of tattooing instruments has been deposited at the Alexander Museum, Wanganui, by Messrs. Hohepa to Utupoto and Parva. te Utupoto (states the Chronicle). The instruments are made of small sticks and the bone of an albatross wing. The sticks, sharply hooked in a V-shape, have a small piece of corrugated bone and i'n some cases steel, lashed carefully on, and are known as “horihi” and “taimoke.” There is also a small stick for striking the horihi into the flesh, together with the ngarehu, or black pigment used for applying to the deliberately made wound. The instruments were used by the late Haimo'na te Utupoto, and are regarded as a rare acquisition to the museum.

Those persons responsible for New Zealand’s publicity campaign were sternly taken to task by Mr. R. T. Tosswill, who returned to Christchurch last week after a lengthy trip abroad. Quoting a particular instance of his journey from Penang to Singapore, Mr. Tosswill declared that the only sign of anything urging tourists to visit the Dominion was a very amateurish poster on the railway stations bearing a second-rate representation of a scene in the Waitomo Caves. Considering that the inhabitants of that part of the world took up to twelve months’ leave of abse'nce and that something in the nature of Mount Cook or the glaciers would appeal to them, the publicity effort depicting the caves was most unsuitable.