FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 4

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS. Notification that a soil survey of the whole of the pakiki lands in the Buller district would be made as soon as the Buller County Council and the Westport Borough Council formally signified their willingness to contribute £SO towards the estimated cost of £SOO was received from Hon. P. C. Webb by the County Council at its monthly meeting. Sportsmen want the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hor., W. E. Parry) to prevent farmers from shooting ducks on private ponds between 4 p.m. and 7 a.nt. The North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society at its annual meeting passed such a resolution after being told that one farmer fed 80 bags of peas on a pond on his property and took 900 birds in a season. Another, it was said, took 7C-birds in one evening. “That this meeting enters a very strong protest against the expenditure of upwards of £IOOO a year- for tho. next three years of the dairy industry’s money ' o'n a sires survey ■scheme,” ..was a resolution passed at the meeting of the council of the New Zealand Friesian Association at Hawera. The meeting was of opinion that if the work was going to assist in the building up of better pedigree cattle and dairy herds the survey scheme.,,must be confined to pedigree sires Only.