Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 72, 11 May 1945, Page 4

Local and General

Debt Case In the Whakatane Magistrate's' Court sitting last Tuesday Ratangi Dahya was given judgment against Ernest Carticr for £7 10s Ski with costs £2 15s,' Monthly Production Data During the present season a new .service has been started of supplying dairy companies with the monthly production of butterlat and the total lor the season to date. Dairy company secretaries have co-operated very wholeheartedly in the. collection of this data, but there are still a few, representing 5 per cent, of the Dominion's total production, who arc not co operating. Whakatane Rod and Gun Club At a recent committee meeting of tfie above club it was suggested to request all club members who were fortunate enough to secure limit bags during the season that they donate a pprtion of their bags to the local hospital for the patients. This suggestion met with strong approval, so patients can look forward to enjoying a dinner of wild duck and perhaps pheasant in the near future. Imported Machinery "We farmers are at present practically tied down to buy American implements under lend-lease agreement between the United States and New Zealand declared Mr J. Woolerton. a delegate at tlie annual conference of the Dairy 'Producers'' Association at Morrinsville during a discussion on the importation of agricultural machinery. The opinion was expressed by other delegates that it was a duty and more than a duty to give preference to British-made goods, even preference over much of the highly protected New Zealand-made, goods that could never be made self-sup-porting. Increasing Production Speaking at the Whakatane Ward Conference of the Dairy Board_ the Board's Chairman, Mr W. E. Ha le, instanced one of the many ways, in which dairy farmers had tackled the problem of increasing production during the past season. In a number of eases Primary Production Councils had organised drives for "empty" cows which would otherwise have been culled from the industry, he said. "In one particular case," said Mr Hale, "two hundred cows were grazed during the winter by the Primary Production Council at a 9 ' cost of a head to the owners and quite a number of these cows will be brought back into production during the coming season. This is an excellent example of the manner in which the industry has tackled the job of maintaining cow numbers and it is our only hope of holding production during the coming season."