SIFTINGS

Northland Age, Volume 5, Issue 4, 25 October 1935, Page 4

SIFTINGS

The 71 percent restoration of salaries to civil servants has been made retrospective to July 31. Thousands of parasites to check the white butterfly are ready for liberation this season over the areas which were not dealt with last year. The following terms have been fixed for primary and district high schools under the control of the Auckland Education Board : First term —Monday, February 3, to Friday, May 8 ; Second term Monday, May 25, to Friday, August 21 ; Third term Monday, September 7, to Friday, December 18.

Provision for a Government subsidy of 121 percent on rural rates is made ii the. Finance Bill. The subsidy is on the same basis as last year, and will be paid to all counties and town boards.

The route of the Transtasman link of Empire Air Service from England to New Zealand will be from Brisbane to Auckland with the possible development of emergency landing facilities at Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and Parengarenga harbour. Shipments of lamb for the 12 months ended September 30 totalled 8,848,593 carcases, against 8,747,761 carcases in the previous season. Mutton exports comprised 2,010,351 carcases, compared with 1,787,538 carcases, while pork shipments rose from 462,142 carcases to 601,773 carcases. “I think that it is probable that the war is having a detrimental effect upon the market. There have been all sorts of rumours concerning the war, and the fall of butter of 6/- to 7/- during the past few days is partly due to nervousness on the part of buyers.” Mr. H. E. Davis, Dairy Produce Board’s London manager. Shipments of butter from New Zealand in September totalled 7560 tons, a decrease of 1551 tons on September, 1934, but the total for the first two months of the season, 18,200 tons, was 8503 tons greater than in the corresponding period last year. The heavy August shipments seem attributable to the mild winter, but the backward spring is reflected in September figures. A total of 29 percent was sold

f.o.b. and 71 percent consigned. In September, 1934, only 2 percent was sold f.o.b.

Shipments of Miter from Australia and New Zealand during September amounted to 12,296 tons, against 15,423 tons last year. The committee of the New Zealand Dairy Board and the Executive Commission of Agriculture will meet on November 5 to discuss with the distributors the problem of prices for butter. “We should be able to finish by Friday night, although it may be necessary to call the House together on Saturday morning purely for the formal business of adjourning.” Prime Minister. The 1935 lambing season is one of the poorest ever known in the Gisborne district. Percentages on an average are expected to be very little above 70 for the whole of Poverty Bay and coastal areas and in addition the lambing period has been drawn out longer than usual. Imports of butter into the United Kingdom during September were greater than in either of the two previous years. Impoits from British countries rose by about 2100 tons, ar.d from foreign countries by about 3300 tons. The foreign increase was due mainly to an improvement in sup,dies from Soviet Ruusia, which ro-c- Hum 200 tons lo 3870 tons.