Pool in Whangarei District

Northern Advocate, 16 July 1938, Page 8

Pool in Whangarei District

BOBBY CALF POOLS

After considerable effort, the Whangarei Co-operative Dairy Company has been successful in securing the 80 per cent, of signatures of “wet” suppliers necessary under the Government’s stipulations for the gazetting of a covered area and the formation of a voluntary bobby calf pool. Yesterday the directors formed themselves into a committee to attend to the necessary work entailed. Application for a protected area to be declared has been made. The collecting rights for the company’s district are to be granted by private treaty, and tenders are being called for the purchase of the calves, liveweight at farm gate. This matter will be finalised at a special meeting of the directorate on Wednesday, and it is expected that the pool will operate as from the following day—Thursday, July 21. “There is only one way to make a satisfactory canvass for support for a voluntary pool of this nature,” Mr E. S. Tremaine, chairman of the Whangarei Dairy Company, told a “Northern Advocate” representative to-day, “and that is by personal contact. ' Members of the directorate undertook this task, and it proved a much greater drain on the ; r time than was anticipated. Some averaged only nine signatures DCi day.”