Readers Write

Northern Advocate, 24 August 1945, Page 4

Readers Write

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS [Letters to the Editor must be written in ink on one side of the paper only and not exceed 200 words. Envelopes should be endorsed "Readers Write.”]

In your issue of August 23, Mr R. H. Allan at the Harbour Board meeting is reported to have asked “whether the North Auckland CLAPHAM Forest Society would FALLS leave the Clapham Falls in the same , condition as other bushes they had acquired.” Would Mr Allan be good enough to advise through your columns exactly what conditions he had in mind. —J. D. MITCHELL, President North Auckland Forest Society.

I, and assuredly all your other readers, were touched by Mr G. Hayes's account of his struggle to learn farming. His CONCERNING costs which may FARM COSTS possibly be accurately computed show that every pound of butterfat he has produced in ten years has cost him 2/-. of which he has recovered only 16.375 d per lb. Now. assuming that Mr liayes is only a small farmer, milking. say, 25 cows, each producing 2001 bs of butterfat per season, Mr Hayes has paid out almost £I6OO for whatever he has learned in the last ten years: if his herd is larger, then his tuition fees must have been even higher.

It is possible that in Mr Hayes’s neighbourhood there are one or two men who have been able to break even, or maybe to run a motor car, and pay a little tax. I am sure that if Mr Hayes approaches them nicely he could safely be guided by (heir advice in. his efforts to cut down his rather excessive costs. —R. GILBERD (Rawene).