DAIRY “PAY-OUTS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 11

DAIRY “PAY-OUTS”

SUGGESTED UNIFORttmY WASTE ELIMINATION That dairy companies of the Auckland Province should give consideration to some system of making uniform monthly “pay-outs” throughout all companies was a suggestion made by Mr. C. G. Downes at the annual meeting of the To Awamutu Co-opera-tive Dairy Company held recently. Unity of action, said Mr. Downes, would be in the interests not only of the companies, but also of the suppliers, who would then know ahead what they were to receive and would be able to arrange their expenditure acordingly. Sucli a scheme ought to be practical, and would tend toward a true co-operation among companies by elimination of overlapping in cream cartage and of other avenues of waste. Tho chairman of directors, Mr. C. M. Alexander, remarked that his company was quite ready to co-operate with any other co-operative concern toward elimination of the waste mentioned. Tho board would extend its hand to any other co-operative concern that was prepared to treat in an honourable manner toward reducing costs. As to tho system of payments, the board had always tried to advance the highest sum monthly consistent with safety, said Mr. Alexander, in promising to give Mr. Downe’s suggestion consideration.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE WELLINGTON MARKETS REPORT FROM BROKERS Laery and Company, Ltd.. Wellington, report present values as follow: Passions: Choice, 10s. 12s; others, 7s, 9s half-case. Lemons: Choice cured, 15s, 17s; others,-Ss, 10s bushel. Tree Tomatoes: Choice, ss, 5s 6d; others, 3s 6rl, 4s 6d half-case. Tomatoes: Choice hothouse, Is Bd. Is lOd; others. Is 4d. Is Hd a pound. Cucumbers: Choice hothouse, 18s, 21b; others, 14s, IGs dozen. Celery: Choice, 12s, 15s; others, Bs, 30s banana case. Lettuce: Choice, 12s, 3 4s; others, 6s, 9s banana case. Spinach: Choice, 4s, as; others. 3s, 3s 6d banana case. Kumeras: Choice, 13s, Jss banana case; 9s, 11s sugar bag. Cabbage: Savoy, choice, Ss, 9s; others, ss, 7s a sack. Cabbage: Drumhead, choice, 6s. 7s a sack. Cauliflower: Choice, 10s, 12s a sack. Sprouts: Choice, 10s, 12s bushel. Poormans: Choice, 6s, 8s bushel. Potatoes: New. 3£d, 4d; others, 2£d, 3d lb. DISTRICT STOCK SALES AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS Stgck auctioneers report on salgs held throughout tho district during the past week as follow: Alfred' Buckland and Sons, Ltd.— During tho week wo hold cattle sales at Westfield, Runciman, Tuakau and Wellsford and a pig sale at Waiuku. Increased yardings of cattle came forward and found keen buyers for all classes at firmer values. Best dairy cows realised £l4 to £l9; good cows, £ll 10s to £l3 15s; other dairy cows, £5 to £ll_ss; best springing heifers, £l2 to £ls 10s; other springing heifers. £7 to £ll 17s 6d; empty young cows and heifers, £5 to £7; store and boner cows, £2 10s to £6 10s; fat cows and heifers, £7 to £l3 15s; fat steers, £ll 15s to £l4 17s 6d; grown steers in forward condition, £lO 15s to £ll 12s 6d; four-year-old steers, £9 10s to £lO 12s 6d; three-year-old steers, £8 10s to £9 7s 6d; two-year-old steers. £7 to £8 7s 6d: yearling to 18-month steers, £4 15s to £6 17s 6d; well-bred yearlings to 15-month - old dairy heifers. £6 10s to £7 12s Gd; other yearling heifers, £3 10s to £ 6 ss: cows with calves, £6 10s to £lO 10s; heavy bulls. £3 70s to £4 10s: sound young herd bulls, £6 to €l2 12s; other bulls, £2 to £3 7s 6d. There was a larger entry of pigs at Waiuku and values were about on a par with Westfield quotations. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.—Sales were held during the past week at Westfield, Pukekohe (cattle and pigs), Waiuku (cattle and pigs), and Kaukapakapa, with values for all classes of cattle firm at late quotations. We quote: Best dairy cows and heifers, £l2 to £l7 10s; fair to medium, £9 15s to £ll 15s; other dairy cows and heifers. £7 to £9 10s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £4 10s to £6 15s; herd bulls, £5 to £ls 15s. according to breed and quality; potter bulls, £2 10s to £6 ss; boner cows, £2 5s to £4 17s 6d; store cows and heifers, £4 to £7 12s 6d; yearling to 18-months heifers, £2 10s to £6 15s for good quality; Jersey yearling to 18-months steers, £4 to £5 17s 6d; two to two and a-half-year steers, £ 6 to £7 17s 6d; three to three and a-half-year steers, £8 to £9 17s 6d; grown steers in forward condition, £2O to £ll 12s 6d. Beef and all classes of pigs at full Westfield quotations. EVERY COUNTRY SHOULD GROW ITS OWN WHEAT The following striking statement appeared recently in an article in "Reynolds,” an English publication. The article is written by Mr. William Wright. M.P.: “Britain can grow, on its own soil, tho wheat supply to feed 44,000,000 people and, therefore, need not import wheat. It is our duty as a nation to be self-supporting in wheat. It would be to our advantage to grow all our wheat. It is possible—and unless wheat survives, agriculture cannot survive. “There is much evidence to prove that Britain need not import wheat and need have no unemployed. France’s population and Britain's are about equal. The French nation has only a few hundred unemployed, while Britain’s figure is rapidly approaching the 2,000,000 point.”

The article goes on .to point out that France, Belgium, Holland. Denmark and other countries produce not only their wheat, but all their chief articles of food.

To all thinking people in New Zealand there is an important lesson to be learned from the article quoted above. Attacks have been recently made on the protection granted to the wheat industry in New Zealand. A reasonable amount of protection is the only possible way of continuing the industry in this country. Those people who advocate New Zealand’s relying on imported wheat and flour should pause and consider how necessary it is that this country should be selfsupporting as regards its wheat supply and also that if wheat growing were abolished, what a serious effect it would have on employment. It is not sufficiently realised that no other kind of farming that is possible in our wheat areas provides anything like the same amount of employment and contributes so much toward the national wealth, as does wheat growing. I£ leading European countries consider it so absolutely to be self-supporting in wheat, can New Zealand afford to abolish wheat growing?—23.