NEWS ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 5

NEWS ITEMS.

The Waikato beef market continues brisk, and everything points to hardening of prices, as the weather is unfavorable for turnip stocking. There is little demand for dairy cows at present except for well-bred stock (states the Wairarapa Age). f |Tus is a good indication that fanners are beginning to realise that the well-bred cow ia the most payable proposition. The Rev. H. E. Jones, 8.A., of Durham University, has been appointed vicar of Ilaetihi. Mr. Jones, who is at present organising secretary of the National Society for the province of York, will arrive in New Zealand about the end of August. There has not been much demand for any stock except ewes at the recent Wairarapa stock sales. Equal supplies are coining forward, but stores and wethers have not been sought after. A few farmers are operating for 3-year steers, probably to that with the winter wearing on, all clear the rough feed. It is expected classes of stock will harden.

A farmer was watching a neighbor unloading a tractor at a country station, and was chaffed by the owner of the new machine. “This is what you should havo,” said the tractor owner. “May bo,’’ said the farmer, “but by the time your tractor is as 'old as my horse it won’t bo worth much.’’ “How old is ho?” asked the other.- “Old enough to vote,” replied tho horse-owner. “Thai was' three years ago,” said tho horseowner at the Drummond ploughing match, “and my horse is still doing good work, while the.tractor has been discarded.”

According to Mr. W. J. Poison there are some stock and station agents who are not averse to taking their pound of flesh (remarks a Wanganui correspondent). During a meeting to discuss tho agricultural banking question, lie said lie could produco a letter in regard to a certain freezing company which froze a farmer shareholder’s sheep. This company was paying a shilling per head more than any other company operating in the district. Tho farmer was also a client of tho stock and station firm. Tho firm actually wrote to tho freezing company and asked that it. bo paid commission on its client’s sheep, as it claimed it had a right to say how tho stock should be disposed of. and it was in tho habit of getting commission in other similar cases. Tho firm further stipulated that unless it got commission it would he compelled to see that the sheep went to some other company that would pay it. A fanner asked Mr. Poison whether it would bo possible to name the “shylock” company. Mr. Poison replied that the information had been supplied to him on the understanding that ho would riot divulge the name. “But,” added Mr. Poison, “I have no doubt it will get back to the firm.”