MANGONUI MAORI HEALTH COUNCIL ELECTS OFFICERS

Northland Age, Volume IX, Issue 18, 5 December 1939, Page 2

MANGONUI MAORI HEALTH COUNCIL ELECTS OFFICERS

A meeting of the Mangonui Maori Health Council, which functions under the super-vision of the Health Department, was held in Kaitaia Courthouse on Friday, when a number of matters of importance to the health and mortality of the Maori people in the district were discussed. Cases of departure from the recognised standards of the Maori came before the Council, and further consideration was adjourned till next meeting. The following were re-elected to the council for the ensuing year : Messrs. H. K. Waiana (chairman). Perene Huirama, Mita Paratene, Hohepa Kanara, Kereama Ratima, Rapata Hoterene and Here Totana. “Our farms are New Zealand’s munition factories.” —President of Whangarei Farmers’ Union. ☆ ☆ ☆ Importers are protesting vigorously against the ban on farming machinery, particularly cream separators and shearing plant. They declare the industry will be seriously hampered by the restrictions. * ☆ ☆ Agriculture’s share of British Government subsidies in the past five years has included: Sugar beet £42,712,104. cattle industry, £18,115,794; milk, £5,696,861; land fertility, £1,961,513; oats and barley, £164,868. it it it The South Australian Co-op. Wheat Pools, Ltd., paid on September 14 a fourth and final dividend of 13d. a bushel on wheat pooled this season. Growers received a total of 2/'23d. a bushel, less rail freight. Wheat costs rather more in New Zealand.

THE POOR COW (“Lord Justice Hesser said he supposed the cow’s case was that the cows had strayed about the road from time immemorial.” —On a motor accident caused by a cow.) The Simple Cow, which strays about the road, Obeys the laws of no existing code: It stops and stares, and sometimes stares and stops, Oblivious of Reason’s ruthless goad. Here where the bloom of Parson’s Frolic decks The hedge in autumn, cows will bend their necks, Then zig-zag on in their peculiar way Which would —were they on wheels — result in wrecks. But man is far above the best that lows: From peak to peak of reasoning he goes: Think of his, social structure and his wars— He knows about all, oh yes, he knows.

The Argentine Ministry of Agriculture is organising an extensive and intensive educational campaign to check the spread of insect pests and plant diseases. Scientific delegations are to be sent out to establish contact with agricultural colleges and arrange lectures and demonstrations.