FARMING NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1925, Page 7

FARMING NOTES.

'.The Masterton Dairy Company hr." received advice from London that it" Ruahine shipment of butter realised 178/ per cwt.

The annual conference of the National Dairy Association will this year be held at Hawera, commencing on June 30. I.

During February the : Masterton Dairy Company manufactured 157,680 lbs butter, an increase of 182,842 lbs on February 1924. Butter disposed of for local consumption was 13,777 lbs. The total output from the beginning of the season to March, I was 454 tons 6 cwt. There is a proposal at present being discussed by the trustees of the New Zealand Shcepowners’ Acknowledgement of Debt to British Seamen’s Fund, under which it is suggested to extend the activities of the movement, and bring girls to New Zealand under a scheme similar to that which at present operates in respect to the boys at Flock House. The managing trustee, Mr T. R. Lees, states that the committee of the fund will probably have something concrete to work upon within the month. There are many difficulties in the way of the scheme, as it was obviously more difficult to arrange for girls than for boys. “The trustees of the fund,” stated Mr Lees, “hope' to be able to bring out the sisters of some of the boys who are already here, and the ideal of the scheme is to placo them—after they have received sufficient training—on the farms and stations at which their brothers are apprenticed. The farmers’ wives, as well as the farmers themselves, require help, and it is suggested that the girls be employed as domestic servants and mothers’ help.