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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 4

That city people had to pay 12s a gallon for cream which returned only 3s to the producers was a position described as ridiculous by Mr. L. Hammond at the meeting of the Dominion executive of the Fanners’ Union at Wellington. “People in the cities of New Zealand can only buy cream as a luxury. It seems absurd that that should be the position in a country that has more cream than it knows how to deal with,” he said. “I have it from three large factories in the Wellington central district that they are quite prepared to sell pasteurised cream at 4s a gallon and put in on the rail. That applies practically to every large city in New Zealand. It is iniquitous that with fall this talk of quotas anything like 12s a gallon should be charged.” Not for some time have Christchurch post office officials had to puzzle their brains to decipher the message of flippant envelopes addressed not by name, number and street, but by decorative little puzzle pictures; but in the past few days, two bright efforts of comprehension have been made in the investigation department, states the Sun. The cases were similar. In each, a reply had been posted to a small newspaper advertisement, announcing goods for sale, and in each the four-figure identification number of the advertisement, instead of the actual house number also quoted, preceded on the envelope the name of the street. The postal officials knew that neither the Christchurch streets concerned carried house numbers as high as those on the envelopes. So an ingenious mind hit on the idea of searching the advertisement columns of the newspaper files, and patience was its own reward.

"With all the poisoning and trapping that has gone on the rabbit menace on the Plains is greater than ever it was,” declared a member of the Ashburton County Council recently, states an exchange. "If the farmers will not cut their big fences we will never get ahead of the trouble,” another member stated. A county resident wrote to the council stating that he had killed 600 rabbits on his property, following the appeal* made by the county council, but his neighbour, who occupied a large area of river-bed, had done nothing to eradicate the pest, which was teeming on that property. It was agreed to draw the attention of the authorities to the case, and to suggest the employment of relief men under the rabbiting scheme to make an effort to clean up the area.