GENERAL NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2389, 28 October 1924, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS

No less than .1004 enamel mugs are lost from the New Zealand railways in one vear. said Mr D. Brodie, of the railways commercial branch, when speaking at the Auckland provincial tourist frame conference the other afternoon. It is now proposed td abolish the old enamel mugs altogether, installing paper cups instead. Paper cups had already been introduced into the main lines.

A shipment is being made liv the Rotorua for London of nearly .1,000,000 Xo>v Zealand eggs, mainly from South Island poultry farmers. It is expected that (lie eggs will realise £IO,OOO. Tt is further anticipated that the total ship-, ment of eggs for the current season will yield a return of about £40,000. The eggs will arrive in Groat Britain in time for the seasonal scarcity.

“Mine farmers out’of ten won’t believe yon when yon refer to seedless gorse, and will only laugh at you, remarked Mr W. McChcsnoy at a meeting of the Southland League. “But there is a seedless gorse,” he continued, “and in live years you will have a fence that will keep in bullocks.” “Do you know how it was discovered?” asked Mr John Gilkinson. There was no reply, and he continued: “Robert Cleave was visiting the Melbourne Exhibition many years ago, when he noticed an exhibit, of gorse with a double flower. Recognising that it was seedless, he asked for it was given permission to take the exhibit away after the Exhibition, and he brought it back with him. That’s how it was introduced into Southland.” Mr McChesney: “There are miles and miles of it in some parts.”

New Zealand butter is making itself known in Europe. “Much satisfaction is felt” (writes the Geneva correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph), “that butter from New Zealand is to be imported into Switzerland. A Genevese wholesale butter merchant, who has just returned from Wembley, where he-inspected the Dominion’s pavilion, has arranged with the New Zealand Produce Association and with the Cooperative Wholesale Society for the delivery of New Zealand butter, which could be sold in Switzerland cheaper than the native product. A pound of butter costs in Switzerland 3/, whereas New Zealand butter, which is considered the best in the world, could be sold at 2/2 a pound, or even 2/.” A New Zealander, who is in Constantinople, happened to be in a. general store kept by an 'Englishman there. To his surprise he heard the request, “Two pounds of New Zealand butter and a pound of New Zealand cheese.” This order was fulfilled immediately! It is believed the New Zealand produce is obtained from Egypt.