OUR CONTEMPORARIES

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1728, 8 January 1921, Page 4

OUR CONTEMPORARIES

In larger aspects the medical inspection of schools should be regard as the beginning of a great campaign by which preventive medicine will eventually grapple with the earliest symptoms of disease in young and old alike. Prom this standpoint its control should undoubtedly be vested in the Public Health Department, subject to the fullest co-operation with teachers and educationists generally.—Auckland "Herald.” And oven the wool outlook is not so bad as some of the gloomy ones would have us believe. Already this week we have been able to report an improvement in prices, at the Napier sales, and the better demand there seems to indicate that bottom prices had been reached and that wool was on the rebound. In regard to the quality of this season's clip, information gathered in our own district is to the effect that it is a. record for quality and weight. This will help to compensate for the lower prices which the groovers will be compelled to accept. Concerning the frozen meat industry, the outlook is distinctly good. The price for fat lambs this year is higher than it has even been, even during the war, and a prime lamb today is worth up to 30/-. This is at least 5/- ahead of previous years, so that if the grower loses 5/- on the ewe’s wool, compared with previous prices, he makes it up on the lamb. Beef and mutton are not on a rising market just now. but the prospects are good, especially for beef. In regard to the butter market, the present position is so good that dairymen, who, generally speaking, must have their grumble, are admitting that they have at last come into their own.—Feilding, "Star.”