HAWERA NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1924, Page 6

HAWERA NEWS.

' STABBING AFFAIR ALLEGED. YOUNG MAN ACCUSED. A CHINAMAN WOUNDED. (From Our Ow T n Reporter.) Hawera, Sept. 17. A Chinaman with a bandaged head, a policeman with a wicked-looking knife and a young man formed the central figures in the Hawera Court this morning, following an alleged stabbing affray on the outskirts of Hawera yesterday afternoon.

Frederick David Edgecombe, the young man mentioned, was charged with assaulting a young Chinaman named Ah So with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and with causing actual bodily harm by stabbing Ah So in the head with a knife. On the application of Sergeant J. Henry, Mr. H. Graves, J.P., granted a remand to to-morrow morning, and on the application of Mr. G. H. Ryan, for accused, Edgecombe was admitted to bail in his own recognisance of £5O and one surety of £5O. THE DAIRYING SEASON. A PROMISING OPENING. The dairying season in South Taranaki is now under weigh under very favourable conditions? Fair weather has prevailed for some time, and the I recent spring rains are having a very I beneficial effect upon the pastures. The statistics of the Hawera Dairy Company, which operates through several branches over a wide area around Hawera. give a good indication of the trend of production for the first two months of the season. The amount of butter fat received by the company foi July and August of this year is only 5001bs. less than the amount received for the corresponding months of the previous year. This year 129,1131b5. butter-fat were received during July and August, the amount for the same two months of last year being 129,611. This year the Hawera Company commenced to accept home-separated cream from suppliers, and this has meant an increase of about 124 per cent, in the business done.

“Although the advance pay-out to suppliers of cream for butter-making is about 4d to 4Ad per lb. greater than the advance pay-out to suppliers of milk for cheese-making, there does not seem to be a great number of suppliers changing over to home separation.” said Mr. A. Duncan, secretary of the company. While the company would not dare to make advance pay-outs of more than Is 3d per lb. butter-fat for cheese, they were paying out Is 7d per lb. butter-fat to the suppliers of cream for butter-making. At the end of the season, however, the cream suppliers would have no advantage over the milk suppliers. The butter market, generally speaking, was good, although a little week at the present time.