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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17441, 13 April 1931, Page 4

The price of municipal milk at Wellington is to be increased l£d off Thursday next to 6jd per quart, less than was charged last winter.

The number of women and girls who have registered as unemployed in Melbourne is 4122.' The number of homeless girls who are being supplied with Sustenance has increased recently from 409 to 800.

Apple exports from Gisborne up to the end uf last week total 9945 cases, and it is anticipated that before tlie season closes about 18,000 cases will lie shipped. The exports to date have been distributed among the United Kingdom, the Continent, Smith America and Canada, but from now on the Gisborne shipments will be confined to the United Kingdom and tlie Continent. The total of over 2009 cases sent to Wellington last week for transhipment probably will represent the peak of the season, but- th 3 exporters will have some weeks yet to pack their remaining consignments.

While the remarkable growth following the recent copious rain has not succeeded in arresting tho butterfat decline from some of the' Gisborne herds, others have been main tain t'd in ■ milk at the level to which they had dropped up to the time the grass began to come away. A few largo herds which had the benefit of careful feeding during the dry spell and were kept up to a fairly high level of production have shown increases, which in a few cases are fairly substantial when the lateness of the sesnson is takoiiW"’ into consideration. Taking the pro-T duction over tho herds supplying the Okitu Co-operative Dairy Co., a slight increase is recorded during the pnst few days compared with mo level reached up to tho end of tho dry spell.

A daring burglary was committed on Friday night at a house in Westminster street. Mount Eden, Auckland, when a man ransacked three bedrooms while the occupants were playing cards. With several guests in the drawing-room, the whole house was brightly illuminated, the front door being left ajar. It is believed the intruder slipped quietly through the front door, and immediately set to work to search three bedrooms for money. To get to one of the side bedrooms he had to pars the drawingroom. the door of whjeh was closed! The fact that the thief missed a sum of money in tlie front bedroom suggests that he was disturbed when he acCi■lentallv knocked a glass from the window sill.

In the interests of economy a movement is afoot for the pooling of the auctioneering organisations of stock-and-station businesses in the provincial districts, thereby eliminating the need for a number of auctioneers and their staffs attending all the minor stock sates. It is understood that an agreement on these lines’has been readied' by. stock firms in Wellington Province, and that arrangements are almost complete for the formation of a company to be known as Live Stock Ltd. The scheme put forward, it is stated, provides for what amounts to amalgamation in the selling of live stock. With the exception of one cooperative concern. stoCk firms in Wellington. Wairarapa, Manawatu, and Taranaki are to subscribe to the new company. The move has beep brought about by the financial stringency, \ will result in a considerable reductidr in the number of. auctioneers and agents. A report states that several men in the Wellington territory have received notice already. Many of these men will be open for re-engage-tltent by the pew company.