Readers Write

Northern Advocate, 18 November 1940, Page 4

Readers Write

1 am reported to have stated at the meeting of the North Auckland Power Board on Thursday that Ripo-

nui residents were A CORRECTION, experiencing trou-

ble with their radio since • installation of electricity in that district.

This is incorrect. My complaint referred to portions of the Tanekaha group, and I have no knowledge of similar trouble at Riponui. My own set is now practically useless, and I am awaiting a visit from the Postal Department’s radio inspector to locate the cause of the trouble. —P. ELLIOTT.

Mr Cross’s letter re eupatorium (Mexican devilweed) is entirely out of place, as he seems to know the damage done bygorse, NOXIOUS blackberry, etc. About WEEDS. 35 years ago, Mr Alfred Hills, of Raglan county, Lower Waikato, had a few ragwort plants on his farm, and he said that ragwort was not so bad, as sheep eat it. But the point is that gorse and blackberry are comparatively slow-growing, compared with ragwort or deviiweed. These will grow as much in one year as the others will in ten. In consequence, Mr Hiil’s farm in ten years was all ragwort.

As for the weed only growing in sheltered places, just look at the grassed hillside near the Kiripaka Forest Reserve, and then say. Hoping the Agricultural Department will take the matter up.—BOB HOLLAND.

There continues to be made by the farmers of this Dominion, a claim that they should get a highe.r price for

their products. DAIRY PRODUCE Is that fair, in PRICES. view of the fact that if it were not for the British Empire’s Navy protecting the seas it would be impossible for the farmers’ products to reach the Old Land?

It is all very well to say, as farmers are saying, that they do not want the British people to pay more for butter and cheese, but it may well be asked who is going to make up the price to the height the farmers want? Seeing that there is a deficiency of over two millions in the Dairy Account already, which means that the farmers have got that much more than their produce realised in England, how can they expect the people of New Zealand to subsidise them further?

I am sure the farmers know the position as well as anybody, and that the agitation is political. That is a crime at the present time, when the fate of this country is at stake, like that of every part of the Empire.— “FAIRPLAY.”