NEWS IN BRIEF

Northland Age, Volume III, Issue 34, 2 September 1931, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

A Whangarei Black Orpington pullet is credited with laying an egg by 6%ins. and weighing 6ozs. Last season the Whangarei Co-op. Dairy Company consigned 50 per cent of its output and sola | the other 50 per cent. The butter sold on consignment averaged 11. 5 d per lb while f.o.b. and local sales brought an average of 11.9 d. In the Canadian census, town dwellers will have to answer 40 questions, but farmers will be asked 254. The Mahakipawa gold mine is at last coming into its own, and is increasing its output each month. During the present year, according to returns, the total of ioi6ozs. has been secured, which, at £4 14/6 per ounce amounts to £4BOO 12/-. Experts were amazed at an exhibit at the Imperial Wool Fair held recently held at Bradford of a merino fleece, believed to be the heaviest ever shown. It was found in a bale from Geelong bought at the last London sales. Another in the same bale weighed l6lbs. A comparison of the output per factory per supplier shows that the Whangarei Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd. with 754 suppliers had an output of 1771 tons, equal to 2.35 tons per supplier. Northern Wairoa with 705 suppliers made 2403 tons, equal to 3.40 tons per supplier; Ruawai with 162 suppliers made 717 tous, equal to 4.43 tons per supplier. At the meeting of the Hokian-

ga County Council recently, Mr. R. Railley, County Treasurer, submitted a detailed report of the County finances, which showed that the County fund was Dr. £7, 622 2/5; Taheke loan Cr. £36 14/7 with £450 on fixed deposit ; Whangape loan Cr. £2lO 1/3, plus £2,500 on fixed deposit ; Rawene Cemetery account Cr. £ll oil .

The North Taranaki Co-opera-tive Dairy '"'o. has been in communication with its London agents, Andrew Clements &Sons as to the rdvisibility of its whole milk supply into butter or cheese, and has received the following reply-“ Statistical position cheese more favourable than butter, latter may be affected by the European financial position.” This clearly indicates that they recommend the manufacture of cheese.

A motion of voluntary liquidation was carried by a meeting of the shareholders and suppliers of the Temuka Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd. when Mr. H. H. Meredith, chairman of the Waimate Dairy Co., with which the Temuka Company is now merged, detailed the proposed method of working, and explained that financial assistance would be given in the near future by the London agent of the company. This aid would be extended to farmers, and he was sure would be welcomed by many as there was hardly a week passed without calls for financial assistance from the suppliers of the company. The money, he said, would not be loaned out by way of mortgage on farm lands, but some security would be necessary.

Methods of dairy companies in financing their factories were under review during the hearing of a case in the Palmerston North Supreme Court the other day. A bank manager, in evidence, stated that the banks advanced dairy companies money, getting a joint and several as security. A fraction of a penny per lb of butter-

fat was retained in liquadation of the liability. His Honour Mr. Justice Blair observed that that was the practice adopted 30 years ago, and' was really the way the dairy industry had beep built upi An authoritative analysis, based largely on official figures, places the total number of wireless receiving sets now in use at the astonishing figure of 24,000, 000, and their yalue at £200,000,000, Mr, M. H. Ayleswotth, the president of the National Braodcasting Company, announces that his company alone will spend during this year a sum of nearly £2,500,000 on broadcasting talent. This, he explains, does not mean this artists already employed will receive more money individually, but that a greater array of talent will be marshalled before the microphone.

In reply to a suggestion made by the Dargaville Branch of the Farmers’Union that the Northern YVairo Dairy Company might cooperate with the Union in extending advice to prospective settlers upon land in the district, the company advised in a letter received by the branch on Saturday, that members ot the directorate individually, would be only too pleased to co-operate personally in the manner suggested. The branch decided to thank the company for its advice and to enlist the co-operation offered, at the opportune time.