News in Brief

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20328, 11 June 1934, Page 6

News in Brief

Overlapping Inevitable. A It is stated on reliable authority that in Palmerston North there are no fewer than 116 milk vendors, states the “ Manawatu Times.” An average of six carts traverse each principal street once, and in some instances -twice a day. The principal difficulty in obtaining co-ordination is that many clients prefer to deal with the vendor they know. One of the largest suppliers says that by coming together in a spirit of friendly co-operation six such men could effect a net saving of, ssy, £25 per annum each. Writing for a Week. Now that the Auckland City Council’s scheme for the conversion of a large number of its loans has been approved, the Mayor (Mr G. W. Hutchison) is faced with the heavy task of signing thousands of new debentures which are to be issued in place of those now existing and which are to be retired. The plan to deal with loans totalling £1,797,275 has been approved by the council, and the Mayor remarked that he would now be required to do a solid week’s work doing nothing else but signing the debentures. He said he had suggested to Government officials that there should be some means of avoiding this laborious but had found that the Treasury officials were adamant and had laid it down that each debenture must be signed by hand North Island Wheat. Wheat growers in the North Island, notably in the Rangitikei, have been active of late in an endeavour to free themselves from the jurisdiction of the Wheat Purchase Board, or to obtain representation thereon, states the Wanganui “ Chronicle.” The Wanganui and District Development League interested itself in the matter some time ago. It has arranged to furnish Mr Pringle, of Messrs Ireland and Company, Timaru. with samples of wheat grown on Mr Duncan Mackintosh’s property, near Fordell, for the purpose of making tests and comparisons with the South Island product. Different climatic conditions in the North Island have to be taken into consideration, and Rangitikei growers hold that with the board constituted as it :s at present, without a representative capable of putting the North Island view, an unfair handicap is established against the North Island product. If representation is not permitted. it is hoped that the growers in the North Island will not be subject to the board's jurisdiction.