Productivity Of New Zealand

Chronicle (Levin), 18 January 1949, Page 4

Productivity Of New Zealand

I was astounded to learn at food conferences that New Zealand exported more butter to the Unite-d Kingdom than did "Australia, and that more than half the butter, mutton, and cheese importsd into England came i from this country. I fel-t a -iittle small when t thought of , the comparative sizes of Australia and New Zealand," said the Prime Minister of QueensLand (Mr. E. M. Hanlon) at Timaru.

| Homing Horse ! Stories about cats and dogs who find their way home from long distances and over unfamiliar ! country are common, but a ' horse with the homing instinct makes news. This one is an aged animal who lived an easy life in Akaroa until his owner decided a spell of hard work on his son's farm in Port Levy would do him no harm. The old horse sampled it, and apparently did not like it. He jumped a fence and made his way home along a hill road over which he had been only once before. The ijourney took him several days. I Weeds In Baled Hay ! Concern at the 'apparent care(.lessnes^- of some farmers, in' baling i hay containing ragwort and* other noxious weeds was expressed at a meeting of the Matamata County I Council. Mr. C. H. Brinkworth pointed out that. weeds in baled hay could be easily spread into , clean areas. The chairman, Mr. E. |D. White, suggested a remit to the next .ward conference requesting legislation to make the sale' of hay containing ragwort ah offence. He said that from the ward conference the remit would be sent on 'to the Dominion conference. It was decided to ask the Minister of Agriculture to transfer hemlock ■ arid winged thistle from the second schedule of the Noxious Weeds Act to the first schedule. The passenger in the Tiger Moth which crashed in flames ih thb Rakaia river-bed at Happy Valley, on Sunday, Mr. Robin Burrows, aged 22, has died of burn's' receiv1ed. '