DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Issue 12180, 15 September 1911, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

The Auckland Master Butchers' Association have decided t 0 Price make an all round rise in Of the price of 'beef and veal. Meat. A sharp rise in the wholesale price took place about three months ago, 'beef -going up between lis and 7s per I.oo!b,but the butchers were reluctant to again increase the price for the public. There is a considerable shortage of shorthorns and other suitable store cattle. 'This i's acaountad for by the rapid growth of the dairying industry. A cow that is a good milker is not necassarily suitable for beef. The great majority of 'breeders are raising Alderney cattle, which, although useful for the dairy, cannot be fattened or the butcher. As a rule, feed is short towards the end of winter, but this season, having been so dry, there is much less feed than usual, and in consequence even fewer store cattle. The advance applies on--3y to tieef and veal, the price of which is raised all round from £d to Id per lb. In the Nineteenth Century" of August last, Mr Henniker Imperial Heaton has some ob6erPenny rations to make on the Postage, lack of attention devoted by the Imperial Conference to the question of penny postage, upon which he is considered an eminent authority. "It is very difficult," he! writes, 'to have and enjoy Imperial penny postage without making it universal from the fact that most of our letters to our colonies and dependencies pass through foreign countries. Accordingly, when Sdr Joseph Ward, Prime Minister ci New Zealand, inaugurated penny postage between New Zealand and Great Britain he announced that he was also looking to see it established in every civilisai part of the world. Today we have the extraordinary spectacle of letters being sent fmm New Zealand! to Italy at lid [>er letter, and from England to Italy at 2|d. Sir Joseph Wards informs me that he has made arrangements with France." Later Mr Henniker Heaton publishes a telegram which " that fearless Imperial deader, Sdr Joseph Ward," had sent to him eleven 1 years ago, on the birth of the century, announcing that the penny postage had leen installed. "It is," he says, "by no means the first time New Zealand has led the way, 'and we shall never forget her promptitude in telegraphing her oSer of a Dreadnought at a crisis in our history."