Brief Mention.

Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1446, 31 July 1933, Page 4

Brief Mention.

The sum of £12,019 was distributed as bonus by the Hinuera Co-opera-tive Dairy Co., Ltd., at the annual meeting on Thursday.

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. Keith R. Buckley was passed at the annual meeting of the Matamata Jersey Club, all present standing.

Mr. E. C. Banks, junr., of Mt. Maunganui, Tauranga, spent a few days in Matamata last week, when he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wilson.

Constable L. Holt, of Rawene, has been appointed to take charge of Matamata police station, in succession to the late Constable W. J. Connor.

Mr. J. W. Anderson, chairman of the Matamata County Council, was elected to the committee of the New Zealand Counties’ Association at the annual conference at Wellington last week.

Messrs. W. H. Allen (Tirau) and R. A. Candy (Ngarua), the retiring directors, were returned unopposed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Co-operative Herd-testing Association last week.

Mr. R. Avery, manager for the Farmers’ Trading Company Ltd., leaves on Thursday for Auckland and North Auckland on his annual holiday. Mr. Northmore, of Huntly, will act as relieving manager.

The picture party and dance held by the Matamata Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday was a social success and was a personal triumph for the president (Mr. H. E. Schofield), who suggested and carried out the idea. Over 60 people attended the function.

The death occurred at Morrinsville on Sunday of Mr. Joseph Hislop Boles, who had been in business as a mercer since the close of the Great War. He served in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Mr. Boles was a brother-in-law of Mrs. W. C. Coote, of Whangarei, and formerly of Matamata.

Dairy companies in the Morrinsville district are now well into the new season. The Morrinsville Cooperative Dairy Company’s factory will be making butter every day from the beginning of this week, while the Morrinsville factory of the N.Z.C.D.C. will be working every day in a week or so.

“ New Zealand dairy produce is sold in nearly every grocer’s shop and dairy,” writes a Londoner to a friend in Morrinsville in a letter received this week. “We know that as it is produced under such ideal conditions it must be pure and wholesome. Is it not wonderful that such produce can be sent those thousands of miles and still be fresh for consumption ? I always read with in- ‘ terest any news ■ of New Zealand, and look on it as a second England.”

To advertise Empire produce in Britain the Empire Marketing Board spent some £60,000 on publicity in 1932-33. Twelve sets of posters were displayed on the 1700 poster frames in four to five hundred of the chief cities and towns in the United Kingdom. Over 27,000 schools now receive copies of poster reproductions. The board ran its own Empire shops for periods of five months each at Sheffield and at Cardiff, and the number of samples sold through the shops in various centres now numbers over a million.

The position of Crown tenants was referred to by the Minister of Lands when addressing the Counties’ Association Conference. He did not hold the opinion that the Crown should take preference. The proceeds should be distributed pro rata among the various interests. But he could not agree that the Government should be responsible for payments, as it would mean that the amount would have to be taken out of the Consolidated Account, and that would mean extra taxation in some other direction.

Twenty-five years ago one of the main items on the list of license returns was for horse cabs. There were 119 in Christchurch in 1908. Last year only five licenses for cabs were taken out, and it is not yet known how many there will be this year. Taxis have taken the place of horse cabs. In 1902 only two taxi licenses were issued, but the number grew to seven in 1909, 27 the next year, and 78 in 1911, reaching a peak figure of 208 in 1927. Between 1910 and 1911 the number of horse cabs fell from 97 to 75, and there has been a steady, decline ever since.

A private meeting was held at Morrinsville on Wednesday to hear an address by representatives of the New Zealand Producers’ and United Kingdom Manufacturers’ Reciprocal Trade Federation, which has been formed to interest exporters and importers in the promotion of a policy of reciprocal free trade between Britain and New Zealand. A Morrinsville branch of the federation was formed, and the following executive was appointed: Messrs. J. E. Leeson (convener), C. M. Gummer, S. A. Ferguson, P. H. Saxton and W. R. Lowry. USE SYKES’S DRENCH. Cleanses the blood. Prevents milk fever. 1/6 packet. 17/- dozen. Farmers and others requiring shelter should read the advertisement of the well-known New Plymouth nurserymen, Messrs. Duncan and Davies Ltd., who are ofrVvipg in this issue a wonderful selection of guaranteed trees. Their nursery stock is all grown on high land exposed to severe winds off Mount Egmont. Therefore they are very hardy.*