Menace of Dingoes.

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

Menace of Dingoes.

Dingoes are said to be hunting in packs on the upper reaches of the Clarence River, in New South Wales, and, causing destruction among herds. Following the reading of a letter from Mr. T. W. Lord, the manager of Gordon Brook Station, the Gratton Pastures Protection Board lately decided to increase the bonus paid for dingo scalps from 10s to £1 during the winter to encourage their destruction. Mr. Lord, who is a member of the board, said that dingoes were worse than they had eveh been. Stockowners had incurred serious losses. Many calves, weaners, and weak cattle were being killed. Dingoes were causing herds to stampede nightly. Mr. L. Chevaley said that dingoes were becoming larger and more savage owing to the Alsatian and cattle dog cross. They would tackle a fairly well-built calf and kill it in practically no time. Mr. N. Waugh said he had seen two packs of seven dingoes in one day. He had never known them to be worse. They were even killing two-year-old cattle.. "Cannot Last For Ever.”

That the milk marketing scheme in Britain would not last for ever was the opinion expressed by Mr. G. Gibson when replying to the toast of the “Dairy Industry at Rahotu recently. He thought that he could already see signs of cracks in its edifice. He could not see that the voters of England', a large number of whom were workers, would be prepared to continue to pay to enable the British Government to subsidise the farmer. He also impressed on the New Zealand dairy farmers the necessity for playing the game with the industry. They must realise that they were engaged in the manufacture of an article of food for which the conditions could not be tdb good. By supplying a consistently good raw material, they could greatly assist the factory managers and their staffs, who were prepared to do their best. Calf That Went to School.

A calf’s appreciation of music, which led to it taking in a whole course at one standing, led to its owner’s appearance in the Perth (West Australia) Police Court last month. Evidence was given that a high school student at Albany parked her bicycle inside the school fence with a music satchel attached to the handlebar. The calf wandered in and literally ate the course in the satchel. The girl’s mother sued the calf’s owner for the value of the music, but, as she had failed to place the bicycle in the shed provided and use her locker for the music, the claim was dismissed. No evidence was tendered as to whether the calf had derived benefit from its studies. Meanwhile the calf, unconscious of the turmoil it caused in the musical world, browses contentedly knee deep in clover.

Spirit of Co-operation. The spirit of co-operation that exists between dairy factory directors, suppliers and the factory staffs, which has been a great factor in raising the standard of dairy produce in Taranaki to a high level, was evidenced at a recent dairy factory annual meeting in North Taranaki. It was then made strikingly evident that the staffs are imbued with the idea of doing the best for their supliers and do not place themselves by any means first. Indeed it was a true example of service before self. A proposal had been put forward and seconded with a view to giving the secretary and the manager a 5 per cent, increase, but before the matter could be discussed both the secretary and the manager intimated that until conditions improved with the suppliers who, they recognised, were struggling hard, they would decline to accept any increase. The manager went so far as to say that if there was any surplus available to increase his salary he would prefer that it were utilised to supply a new item of plant to enable him to secure the best possible results for the suppliers. Their attitude was appreciated by the one of whom remarked that they were certainly hard up against it and required all that there was available.