RETURNS TO DAIRYMEN

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1931, Page 10

RETURNS TO DAIRYMEN

AVERAGE FOR THIRTY' YEARS, 1/4?.

EXPERIENCE AT LOWGARTH.

Figures dealing with the payments made by the Lowgarth Co-operative Dairy Company covering the past 30 years were available at the annual meeting of the company. These show that during this period suppliers have received an average return for their milk production* of just over Is 4fd per lb butter-fat.

If a graph of the payments were drawn.it would show that the farmers of 30 years ago received a bare lOd a lb, and for the first ten years thereafter the average was .11 l-3d. Till 1911 one shilling (the same as th? company will pay this year) was regarded as a satisfactory remuneration for cheese supply. The following decade, however, marked an appreciable rise in prices and amounts of over 2s per lb figure in the balance-sheets of 1919, 1920 and 1921. The average for the ten years from 1911 to 1921 worked out at Is 8d and a fraction. These were prosperous times, ynd good payments continued, with a couple of exceptions in .1922 and 1928, right down to 1929. Indeed, the 2s per lb level was exceeded by the company in 1923., and in 1925 the pay-out reached Is 9d. Taking in this year’s distribution, the average reached during the last ten years was practically Is 7d per lb of butter-fat. It is interesting to note that what is known as the 1921 slump affected the company to a greater extent in relation to the immediate past payment than has the present sharp decline in prices. In 1920-21 the payment was 24.25 d per lb and the slump next year caused a drop of Bd. The 1929-30 payment was 17.70 d per lb and the drop was equivalent to sd. The complete list of payments commencing from 1901-02 is: 9.93 d, 12.48 d, 8.58 d, 9.6 Gd, 12.35 d, 13.37 d, 11.78 d, 12.26 d, 1137 d, 12.00 d, 15.30 d, 12.75 d, 13.75 d, 18.82 d, 20.50 d, 23.87 d, 23.12 d, 24.25 d, 24.75 d, 24.25 d, 16.22 d, 24.12 d, 20.00 d, -21.00 d, 19.00 d, 17.70 d, 2L62d, 19.75 d, 17.70 d, and 12.00 d.

SUCCESSES IN MUSIC.

PRACTICAL TESTS COMING.

The Stratford, representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, London, Mr. R. V. Kay, has received 1 advice of the following passes in the written examination held on June 20: — Harmony, higher division: Marion Blennerhassett (Convent). Rudiments of Music: Thelma Larcom, W'enda E. Scott and Marjorie Townend (S. Mary’s). Air. Kay has also been notified that the examiner for practical work. this year is Mr. Gordon Bryan, a distinguished piano recitalist. The resident secretary, Air. E. E. Cachemaille, Wellington, forwarded a copy of a cable which stated that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, president of the Associated Board, in presiding at the annual general meeting said: “It gives me pleasure to know that the work of the board is being carried on with, continued success in spite of the difficulties of the times. The influence which the work of the Royal schools of music in London exerts for the well-being of musical education both at home and in the Dominions is evident. This influence will undoubtedly be increased by the co-operation now being established between the board and the Cambridge Syndicate for local examinations in respect of music. It is likely that the board may co-operate in a similar manner with other university bodies. Music tends more and more to be a recognised subject in education, and the board s participation in this work is a matter of importance to all who are concerned with music teaching, both in its early and more advanced stages. The exhibitions awarded annually on the'' results of the board’s examinations are much sought after, and they are the means of discovering first-rate musical talent which, trained at the two schools, .becomes of lasting benefit to the music of the Empire.”

ELTHAM GOLF CONTEST.

ABBOTT TROPHY WINNERS.

R. Darling (10) and B. Oldfield (14) beat H. Casey (7) and R. Free 3 up in the final of the E. L. Abbott trophy contest.

ELTHAM THEATRE.

“THE SEA WOLF."

Bringing the spirit of Jack London’s famous “Sea Wolf". to the speaking screen with a graphic realism, Alilton Sills scores a triumph in the Fox Movietone offering of that name. Seldom has an actor fitted the role so well. The part of the domineering, brutal, sea captain, an experimentor in the stuff of which men’s souls are made, might have been written expressly for the noted player of two-fisted roles. And the two chief victims of his curiosity, Jane Keith and Raymond Hackfett, are equally well cast in their respective leading parts, as indeed, are the supporting ’ players. Opening in Hakadate, Japan, where the Wolf is preparing to sail for the Aleutian sealing grounds, the story is colourful, and intriguing from the very first. Fist fights galore, in Sills’ finest style; the shanghaing of the boy, his development under the stern and merciless environment, the sea battle, with Dealth Larsen’s vessel, the escape of the young couple, and the final swift climax, all make “The Sea - Wolf” one qf. the.really outstanding .vocal films.of the .year.