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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1933, Page 6

Speaking at Cromwell, the Minister of Lands, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, remarked that the Government had some years ago arranged for the annual planting of 50,000 acres, and even this year, in spite of the depression, some 30,000 acres would be planted. Extra young trees, based on the programme of tire planting of 50,000 acres, had been offered free to public bodies

“There is no doubt about it, that the use of our wool to-day is more limited than it was,” said Mr. A. C. Morton, when addressing farmers at Wanganui in connection with the levy on wool. “How many of you here are wearing clothing made from crossbred wool? I can only see one man. Our sphere of usefulness in the wool growing is very limited, and it behoves us to raise the quality of our clip.”

The comparative inefficiency of live stock as producers of food and clothing from vegetation was remarked on by Mr. A. H. Cockayne in his presidential address to the New Zealand Grassland Association at Christchurch. “Our 80,000,000 tons of grass in New Zealand,”, he said, “become ‘bovrilised’ down into 300,000 tons of meat, less than 200,000 tons of butterfat and 100,000 tons of wool—a dry-weight matter production that can be secured by 500,000 acres of wheat instead of the 30,000,000 acres of grassland that it takes to do so at present.” The new K locomotives, built recently for the New Zealand railways, have been used fairly extensively in Auckland during the last week, and on several occasions have been used on the southbound Limited express as far as Frankton. It is stated that they have been giving every satisfaction. The engines have also been employed in bringing goods trains back from Frankton. Three of them were used in this manner on Wednesday, and altogether took • about 2400 tons of stock, a task that would have necessitated the employment of four or five less powerful engines.

“I don’t want to dwell on tire dark side of things too much,” said Mr. E. Hay at a meeting of the Canterbury Sheepowners’ Union last week, “but a man who is invariably optimistic must be frequently foolish. We have grave questions before us to-day, such as the quota and tariff questions, and they have got to be handled with sound judgment. Two brighter spots for sheepowners to reflect on are the increase in the price of wool and the. fact that our lamb and mutton are selling better than they were a year ago. As I said last year, we must still go on doing our best to produce a good article and an article that suits our customers.” There had been a lot of discussion about admitting the Press to some dairy company meetings, remarked Mr. G. Marsh, chairman of directors, in moving a vote of thanks to the Press at the annual meeting of the Mangorei Dairy Company yesterday. As far as his company was concerned the Press would always be welcome as it had always given the company a fair deal. For the past 35 years the Press had been reporting the company’s meetings and had given no cause for complaint.