The Waipukurau Press. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933. A BUSINESSLIKE RETURN

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 200, 19 August 1933, Page 4

The Waipukurau Press. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933. A BUSINESSLIKE RETURN

In our opinion it would be helpful to all the power authorities of the Dominion, as well as their constitutents, were they to adopt a system of quarterly, half-yearly and annual returns for the purpose of enabling comparisons to be uniformly made as to their revenue and expenditure (interest, administration, current, and working expenses) involved in standardised grouped sections of loading, with the experience duly individualised as well as aggregated. To illustrate the consumptive and financial trends of a board’s services tabulated returns such as those provided by the engineer to the Central Hawke’s Bay Power Board are recommended. There is far too much guess-work in connection with the fixing of charges for the various branches of service and while commonsense is an important factor in successful administration, it is not in all particulars the superior of technical knowledge. The detailed and very complete statistical return tabled at the monthly meeting of the Central Hawke s Bay Board yesterday, although not duly appreciated by all the members, is a production well worth the time involved as well as the cost of issuing copies to members. To know the trend of service consumption, costs, and revenue, can possibly lead to corrective measures that will save a board concerned hundreds of pounds annually, as well as enable an equitable basis of charging to operate as between one section of consumers and another. CERTIFIED SEEDS The opinion that co-operation, organisation and advertising would lead to New Zealand appropriating world markets in certified seeds was advanced by Mi’ E. Bruce Levy, of the Massey Agricultural College staff, in a paper’ he presented at the conference of the New Zealand Grassland Association. “I think it is safe to say that during the past three years the growing of certified seeds has paid better than wheat, wool, lamb and butter-fat,” said Mr. Levy. “An industry to flourish and develop must have more or less regular and guaranteed supplies of goods to sell, otherwise the good done in opening up of overseas markets will come to nothing.” In extending markets by organising and advertising Mr. Levy suggested that .the experiences of the Meat, Dairy and Fruit Boards would be drawn upon largely and there was the possibility of co-ordinating a seed producer and seller organisation with theirs, certified seeds finding a place in their main exhibits and general propaganda work. Such phases in industry building were a national undertaking. After reference to what the other New Zealand pastoral industries were doing, Mr. Levy said: “I feel that if we work together and organise and advertise, New Zealand will appropriate world markets in certified seeds. Certified seeds the world over are a growing popular fancy. Further, there is just the possibility that this inimitable grassland climate has produced strains that will serve as mother seed for the supply of herbage seeds for at least all temperate climate countries of the world, and this to my mind should be the ideal to aim for —to make New Zealand the elite mother seed producing country of the temperate world. Let ‘Organise, Advertise and Colonise’ be our certified seed motto.”