FEDERATED FARMERS

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 6097, 3 September 1947, Page 2

FEDERATED FARMERS

MAUNGATAUTARI - HORAHORA MORE TELEPHONES WANTED i . -- ( (From Our Own Correspondent) There was a large attendance in the No. 2 School on Thursday evening last, including members and nonmembers at the monthly meeting. Keen interest is being shown by the excellent attendances by a number of juniors. Mr C. Watson, chairman, presided and Mr E. P. Neilson, consulting officer of the Dairy Board, delivered a very interesting and instructive lecture on “Improvement through Breeding,” dealing with dairy cows in particular. Much helpful information was produced by the lecturer who has done a very great amount of research work for the Dairy Board and has at his resources facts and figures to substantiate his theories.

Considerable discussion • followed. Mr Neilson maintaining that the herd sire was the controlling agent in building up a better herd, and that as such,- he should be carefully selected from a line of dams that have proved good producers for a number of generations. He also stressed the fact that the bull’s best recommendation were his daughters as butterfat producers. Business Session

At the conclusion of the lecture a business session was held when it was decided to invite the Post and Telegraph engineer to the newly settled area of Orepunga district with a view to installing more telephones. It was also arranged that a movement be set in action for the regrouping and taking over by the Government of the existing party lines to Maungatautari and Horahora, as these are considerably overloaded and in some cases unsatisfactory. It was decided that the local branch of the Federated Farmers contact the Railway Road Service Department in an endeavour to divert the ’bus service at present operating between Arapuni and Hamilton to travel via Horahora-Maungatautari side of the river at least some of it’s weekly trips.