SPLENDID RESPONSE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 55, 10 March 1944, Page 5

SPLENDID RESPONSE

GRAZING LAND OFFERED ASSISTING FLOOD VICTIMS t . The appeal to farmers for offers of grazing to relieve others, who had the misfortune to lose pasture lniit with a ready and willing response, says the Secretary of the Production Council, Mr J. Alexander. It is characteristic of Ncav Zealand, when distress falls on a community for settlers to rally to the assistance of the less fortunate. Many handsome offers to graze and milk cows were received and are appreciated. -Thanks are due to thc.se donors:, as it is a goodwill gesture, which will mean continued butterfat production, that otherwise would be lost, at. a time when every pound saved is a pound gained for overseas shipment. Some 400 cows have been removed in small lots to new pasture wlicrc they will bo catered for until the end of the milking season. Other herds are being held together and milked in conjunction Avith near neighbours, but further provision will be necessary for the. winter months. Judications at present point to acute shortage, as so much land has to be resown, that it will be unfit lor use till the spring. Further oilers for winter grazing w r ill be most acceptable.