FARM NEWS AND NOTES

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 12 (Supplement)

FARM NEWS AND NOTES

Draft Allowance on Wool The question of the draft allowance on wool has been revived in Australia, and a report from Melbourne states that woolgrowers have informed buyers that unless they agree voluntarily to abolish the draft allowance of lib in every 1121 b of wool purchased the growers will ask the State and the Federal Governments for legislation to provide, that every lib of wool bought is paid for. The making of a draft allowance is an old practice in woolbuying which originated when scales for weighing wool were much less accurate than they are now. One pound ©f wool in every 1121 b was "thrown in” to compensate for any shortage which might have occurred because of faulty weighing.

Kenya Butter Export. Some little time ago Mr. Frank Dyer, Consul for Greece, endeavoured to open up a market for New Zealand butter with a Greek friend of his who is in business in a somewhat &rge way at Lorenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa (states the Evening Post). By a recent mail Mr. Dyer' received a letter from his friend, in which he says: “I am afraid we can’t do anything in New Zealand butter just at present, as we are landing a good sample from Kenya at 7d per lb, c.i.f., Lorenco Marques. We get through from 20,0001 b to 25,0001 b a month.” Hawkes Bay Fruit Export.

yearly 2,000,000 cases of fruit have been exported from the Hawkes Bay district during the nine years that district has entered the export trade. The value of the fruit trade to Hawkes Bay may be gleaned from the remarks of Mr. A. M. Robertson at the fruit exporters conference at Hastings last week. The total number of cases exported was 1,997,827 (1,621,973 cases of apples and 376,034 cases of pears) of local value at 10s per case or approximately £lOO,OOO or more per annum. Out of that approximate annual amount £5OOO a year was (spent on cases, £5OOO on railage charges, £5OOO on packing materials, £20,000 on oversea freights, and about £7500 on other charges, making a total of £42,500 before the growers received a penny. Demand for Wool’

A certain amount of private inquiry for wool is reported in the Auckland province. Prices being offered are on the basis of .the closing rates of the last selling season for ordinary wools, but for better styles there is a slight improvement. However, the difference is hardly sufficients to give an indication of any anticipated movement in the market. Little, if any, business has passed, as holders are unwilling to sell. Wheat Production. Tables published in the August Abstract of Statistics show that in 1933-34 7570 holdings of one acre or more situated outside boroughs grew wheat for threshing. The average area on a holding was 37.82 acres and the average yield per acre was 31.56 bushels.