SUPPLIES OF BUTTER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22922, 28 December 1937, Page 5

SUPPLIES OF BUTTER

SHIPMENTS TO BRITAIN HEAVIER NEW YEAR ARRIVALS AUSTRALIA'S LARGE INCREASE [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Dec. 8 Arrivals of butter in the United Kingdofti are likely to bo considerably heavier than last year, both during the present month and in January, according to the latest dairy produce report of the Imperial Kconomic Committee. Fewer boxes of butter arrived from Australia and New Zealand in November than in the same month last year, the figures being 561,600 and 637,100 boxes respectively. During the present month, however, 1,153.000 boxes are expected to arrive, as compared with 988,400 boxes in December, 1936. Supplies reaching the market are now becoming heavier each week. Although output in the Dominion is still loss than last year, conditions in Australia continue favourable, and gradings in November exceeded last year's figure by 32 per cent, the report states.

Only 1000 boxes of African butter arrived during November, but Canadian shipments totalled 34,400 boxes for the month, as against nil in the same month last year. Shipments from this source have now ceased. Less butter reached the United Kingdom market from the Continent in November than a year earlier. The Irish Free State, the Netherlands and Russia showed heavy reductions. The Baltic States and Denmark also sent slightly less, the only country to show an increase being Sweden. Germany is still taking large quantities of European butter, which, together with the incidence of foot and mouth disease on the Continent, accounts for much of the reduction in exports to England. In November, Danish exports to Germany were 21 per cent higher than in that month last year.

VALUES TENDING LOWER HAND-TO-MOUTH BUYING LONDON. Dec. 25 The butter market is lifeless, with values tending lower. Buyers refuse to purchase except on the understanding that the butter is for immediate delivery. Cheese'is also quiot. BOYS FOR FARM WORK TRAINING IN ENGLAND LADS FROM LARGE TOWNS [from a special correspondent] LONDON, Dec. 6 More than one successful Dominion farm worker has been trained at the Wallingford Farm • Training Colony, Berkshire, where 30C boys recently past school age run a 1000-acre farm. The farm has three fine milking herds or Ayrshire cattle, 21 working horses, 800* pigs and 4000 head of poultry. The boysi also cultivate the fields and market gardens and tend the forest lands. During the next 12 months about 200 of the boys will complete their training and leavo to take up work on farms and estates in the Home Country and in the Dominions. Farmers are applying for them now at the rate of more than five a day. The boys are sent to this Wallingford Training Colony by Public Assistance Committees in big industrial centres because their home environment is bad or because they cannot be found permanent employment. The average lad passes through his training in 15 months and emerges strong and healthy and equipped with a knowledge of farm work.

The first five months are spent in physical training, land work, fencing and forestry. The boys then pass on to stable work and thence to pigs, poultry, and, finally, the cowsheds and dairies. BANKRUPT BUTCHER DEBTS PAID BY WINNINGS SWEEPSTAKE BRINGS IN £BIO [FBOM a SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT] LONDON, Dec. 11 A 51-year-old butcher, .John Urry Watts, of Abingdon, Berkshire, was bankrupt. He had one ambition—to pay back the £540 he owed to friends who had tried in vain to save his little business from failure. He found a job, began to save in pennies and halfpennies. The task seemed hopeless. Then one day he filled in a football penny pool coupon—the first he had ever attempted—and won £315. A few weeks later he bought a share in a sweepstake ticket. Again he won, this time £BIO. This week at Oxford County Court John Watts was granted his discharge from bankruptcy. He had paid the Official Receiver "more than sufficient for full payment for 20s in the pound." With head held high he went back among the friends who waited to greet him in Abingdon. These were the friends who had stood by John Watts when he was struggling against competition and bad luck; who, when he was forced to bankruptcy, five years ago. accepted without a murmur of complaint, the Is 7d in the pound which was all he was able to pay them.

ABDICATION LOSSES COMPANY'S £6OOO DEFICIT [FROM OfR OWN correspondent] LONDON. Dec. 11 A company, formed last year to deal in seats for the Coronation of King Kdward Vllt. lost L'oooo through the Abdication. The fact was mentioned at the Guildhall, when throe men were committed for trial, charged with conspiring to defraud investors. STUD SHEEP EXPORT SOUTH AMERICAN SHIPMENT A consignment of 93 stud sheep is being shipped by the Cumberland to South America next week. The shipment is one of the most valuable to leave the Dominion. The animals will be distributed at Montevideo to various countries, including Argentina and Uruguay, as well as the sheep-breeding districts of Patagonia and Ticrra del Fuego. The greater proportion of the consignment comprises specially selected Corriedale sheep from North Canterbury and Otago studs, but, in addition, there will be some prize-winning Lincoln rams from Marlborough. 'I lie Cumberland is scheduled to leave Port Chalmers on January 4. Ibe shipment is being made under the auspices of Wright, Stephenson« and Company, Limited,