TALLOW SALES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 58, 7 February 1925, Page 3

TALLOW SALES.

DECLINE IN PRICES. LONDON, Feb. 4. At the tallow sales 804 casks were offered and 258 were sold at Is to Is 6d per cwt. decline. Fine mutton brought 53s 6d per dium, 48s. The decline is due to South America making heavy c.i.f. sales to England and the Continent. —A. and N.Z. cable. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. MELBOURNE, Feb. 6. Oats, milling 2s 9d to 2s lOd, feed, 2s 7d to 2s 8d; barley, prime English 7_s. fair 6s to 6s 3d, Cape, 5s 8d to 5s 9d; potatoes, £5 to £5 16s; onions. £7 10s to £7 15s.— Press Association. BUTTER FREIGHTS. LONDON, Feb. 4. Representatives of the Australian Freight Committee renewed tho application to the Refrigerated Tonnage Committee to reduce the 'reights on butter. The committee promised carefully to consider the matter and reply later.—A. and N.Z. cable. The story of a Hauraki Plains farmer who tied nine-by-ones to his feet and tramped over his farm for two years was told to tho Minister for Lands at Patetonga. Another speaker maintained that in tho Patetonga area settlers of to-day suffered greater hardships than their forefathers and pioneers. ' Ihe previous generation had never been burned out and flooded out as were the farmers of to-day. Mr S. T. Paviour-Smith, of Dannevirko, who was engaged on tho dairy produce stall in the New Zealand court at Wembley, was instructed by the Commissioner to select a cheese fo.' the Queen of Spain when she displayed a keen interest in New Zealand o>i a visit to the exhibition. He did so, and tho cheese was consigned to Madrid—an ex-pensive matter as it subsequently turned out for the chaigc-s amounted to £8 8s 6d—double the value of tho cheese itself. Despite the fine advertisement (states an exchange) there is little chance of a profitable business in Now. Zealand cheese with tho Spanish Royal household unless tho Customs tariff of that country is drastically revised.

A gift of £30.000 to found scholarships for the sons of English farmers had a very curious origin. During the reign of the Food Controller just after the war that powerful official decided that all milk taken from, south-western countries to other parts of the country must pay a levy of twopence a gallon. A great milk providing company. United Dairies, Ltd., went to law about it, and got a decision in the Courts that tho levy was illegal, and that it must be repaid. Recently the money has been handed back, and the company, instead of distributing it among its shareholders, has put it into a trust, from which scholarships will be paid to sorft of farmers in those south-western countries for study at agricultural colleges.