ROUND THE PROVINCE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 73, 22 June 1928, Page 5

ROUND THE PROVINCE

VARIOUS NEWS JTi-EMS. In tlio concluding instalment ot Ins report on tfie milk testing experiments Mr P. 0. Vealo dairy scientist, is emphatic that dairymen should not continue ,m their present tendency" of' sending to cheese factories rich and richer milk. Iho limit has already been passed in Taranaki, for there is a. hngo economic waste occurring when- ( over milk cciiitaSung more tiian 4 I' ,per cent, of butter-fat i s made into ; cilc e.se. The low-testing herds for ■ cheese-making is the remedy, the report declares. 1 Instead of every prayer m tlio j champion singles l competition having to play every other player once, Mr M- Squire moved, at the annual meeting of the Hawera fowling Chib on Wednesday, that tile present sy»* tern, bo that three games be played ’ according to ballot and that ballots be taken progressively, the winners of throe games meeting each other according to draws. (Several other schemes were outlined, but it was decided that the committee should he given a free hand to decide. It was unanimously agreed that a drastic change was necessary. * * » The Normality Dairy Company has paid out Is Bhi per uj. butter-fati for the present season’s supply t 0 the end of May, the total gross amount being approximately £55,000. - The total gross distribution for the .whole season was £BOOO less than tin; amount already paid put for this season’s supply to the end of May. »' r * * iThe following players will represent the Hawera Ladies’ Golf Club in a match against the Stratford Club on Tuesday next at Stratford; Mrs Thomson, Miss Richardson Mrs Walklcy, Miss D. Hawken. Miss E. Death, Mrs Wake, Mrs Gibson, Mrs Hawthorne, Miss G. Powdrell, Miss L. Pease, Miss D. Meyrick, Miss D. Bryant. * * » Probably no audience outside Taranaki would appreciate ko fully ana sympathetically the remark made by a Taranakian on Monday when relating some of his experiences during a recent visit to Japan (states the Hawera Star). “It was,” lie said “a remarkable tiling that Though there was plenty cf milk and butter ati the hotels we never saw a cow. Wo saw water buffalo in the paddy fields, but never a cow. Look Here, fellows, I would have given a quid to have seen a good old cow—l won la really.” The earnestness of the.spencer when deploring the lack of this “one little touch of home” brought down the house. The vital issue of whether the already authorised cargo sorting shed for the port of New Plymouth, estimr/ M to> cost, with its equipment, at least £50,060, should be built ashore or on the proposed new Moturoa wharf was discussed at a meeting ot the (Harbour (Board yesterday. The engineer was instructed to prepare a report on possible sites and a subcommittee was set up to confer with the Railway Department with the object of mutually agieemg if possible on a suitable site for the erection of a shed ashore and the provision of a siding. * * •» Yesterday was a bitterly cold day throughout Taranaki heavy bail, storm si being experienced in hlcw Plymouth while snow is reported to* have fallen in Inglewood' and Patea.