UPPER MANGOREI NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1935, Page 23 (Supplement)

UPPER MANGOREI NEWS

FLAG FIVE HUNDRED BARTY. ’Die Upper Mangerei hall committee held a very successful flag five hundred party' on Tuesday night. Nine tables were engaged in play, Mr. Pear Ch Supervising the games. The players at the first winning table were Mesdames Davidson and PearCe, and Messrs. Finlay and *W. Balsom. At the second table were Mesdames Aldie and Hawke a|ld Messrs. R. Harding and C. Radford. The travelling prize was won -by Mrs. J. Johnston. Music for dancing was supplied by

Mesdames Black and Davidson, and Messrs. Mbwat. Black, Basing and The master of ceremonies Was Mr. L. Roberts. Miss J. Mclntyre’s dancing 0f the Highland fling and Sean Triubhaisin national costume was much enjoyed. Mr. Williamson played her aceempanl* menu. A Monte Carlo waltz was bv Miss I. Gleye and Mf- O< Pitt Mr. H. Brown is staying with Mr. and Mrs. L. Kruse.

Skim Milk for Pigs. The Danes have one great advantage—they run their dairy and their pig industries together, says a writer in an English fanning journal. The pigs, in fact, may be said to be a subsidiary of the dairy. The separated milk from butter-making is excellent for bacon production, and the Danes make full use of it. We in England are largely concerned with dairying for the liquid market, but where butter-making is practised on a considerable scale as in Cornwall, certainly the quality of pigs is high. We have a Milk Marketing Board and a Pigs Marketing Board—working separately. The increasing production of milk means that more and more of it must go into manufacture. Dr. Crowther suggests that these two boards should begin working together. Buttermaking by itself gives about the lowest realisation value for milk, but buttermaking where a market for the separated milk has been organised among bacon producers would be a very different tiling. Here is a case, where we should learn from the Danes, and where we have in existence the machinery to do in this country what the Danes—to their great profit—have done in theirs. Wheat Crops at Marlborough. It is estimated that there is an increase of 20 to 25 per cent, in tire acreage under wheat at Marlborough this season compared with last. Last year the area devoted to the crop was about normal, but the yield was well down on account of the dry season. This year, encouraged by the prospect of steady prices, farmers are turning to wheat as a sheet anchor. Other crops are being neglected hi favour of the staple product of the land. The swing over from dairying to sheep is also still very pronounced in that province. ■Wool Figures Decrease. The New Zealand wool figures for the past season showed a falling off, 702,556 bales or 241.046,9631 b comoared with 754,396 bales, or 262,718,4071 b in 193334. The average per bale was 3431 b, as compared with 3481 b in 1933-34 and 3501 b in 1932-33, according to Dalgety’s Review.