GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 28 July 1919, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS

A young girl desires to assist in light house-work.

To mark" the signing of peace and tho services of: footballers in the great. war, the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union has decided to remove the disqualifications on all its player:; who arc at present under suspension. This action is, of course, subject to the decision of the New Zealand Uunion to which the motion will go as a recommendation.

The number of British graves identified in Franco and Belgium is .'57.°.,551, whil.;'; 13-t,S~.'> other burials are reported, making a total of 5:25,:>7-1 graves that are known to exist. These figures convey little or no meaning to the average individual, but their magnitude can be gauged by the fact that this is over .100,000 more graves than were dug in New Zealand during the past thirty years.

A proposal to establish a dried milk factory in tho Auckland district is outlined by the Manawatu correspondent of the Farmers' Union Advocate. It is estimated, he writes, that such a factory could easily afford to pay .'ls 0d per lb. for butter-fat. The idea has apparently caused a considerable stir among dairy farmers, who have vision:: of getting rich quicker, for the article proceeds : —"All this talk has raised tho price of land ; everyone is buzzing round the Auckland province wondering where the dried milk factory is to be put up. Coal is an essential, and therefore any site chosen must be on tho line. Then to get 3000 cows in a district, sufficiently close to the fa-dory to make delivery possible is anoiher tiling to be got over ; but provided the-e two requirements are satisfactorily answered, it is easily seen that the returns from land Must rise very considerably if 'butter-fat is worth ."s <'d per lb. Figure it out. A three hundredpound butter-fat cow at "s would equal 'clo for the season. A cow to the two acres would mean £;V2 10s per acre—a fairly paying proposition, although there is a good deal of very monotonous labour connected- with it. Cheese, which enables L's to be paid out, looks good, but this beats it easily."