COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 279, 21 August 1919, Page 8

COUNTRY NEWS

NOTES FROM VARIOUS CENTRES From Our Special Correspondent. WAIMAPA Tho butter famine in Masterton has been partially relieved by tho sale of whey butter, which is fetching tho samo price as dairy butter. It is anticipated that new season's butter will shortly arrivo from Manawatu factories. , At a meeting of tho Wairarapa Presbytery on Tuesday the following resolution was passed unanimously: "That before any alteration bo made to the present system of military training tho creation bo submitted to tho now Parliament, and before final adoption to a referendum of tho people."

Mr. Ranald Miller, M.A., has been licensed as a preacher of the Gospel by the Wairarapa Presbytery, and is now eligible to receive a call from any congregation.

Another official of the Wndrarapa Rugby Union, Mr. D. Iv. Logan, tho patron, has resigned, as an outcomo of the recent incident. Owing to inability of two members of the Management Committee to attend the further inqury to have been held next Saturday, the meeting baa been postponed.

Tho annual ball of the Masterton Golf Club has been postponed until next year. The main roll of the Masterton electorate is now being prepared. It contains ?45G names. Tho compilation of tlio supplementary toII will be commonced next week.

MANAWATU gome time yesterday afternoon a young man who was riding along Cuba Street, Palmerston North, was attacked by threo dogs, which (lulled him olf his bicycle and fairly worried him. Before he was rescued he was badly bitten on the less. An address to dairy fanners at Rongotea was given by Mr. P. W. Thoiwjs, of Hamilton. Mr. Thomas outlined the progress of the dried milk industry in the Waikato, and said the recent amalgamation between the New Zealand Dairy Association and the Waikato Dairy Association (whose combined turnover exceeded je2,00f1,000 annuallv) was the first step in i). great dried-milk scheme that would ultimately ombraco tlio whole of the Waikato, The Glaxo factories at Matansri and Matamata had added more tlmn J!10 per acre to the valne of farming lands by reason of the industry. The sneaker dealt with the manufacture of skim milk powder, and described the Merrill process. He said that whole milk could ha obtained from this powder by the addition of water, and unsalted butter in the correct nronor'.iins. Skim milk powder was worth 2s. 4d. to 2n. M. nor lb. butter-fat, and the whole of the butter-fat was available for butter, so that it was confidently anticipated that about 3s. (id. per lb. butter-fat would he paid. The speaker commended the Rongotea land for the production of dried milk, and outlined a schema by whWi the nroposnl could he . instituted. The meeting agreed to obtain ?. comprehensive roport n" the dried milk industry. A well-known identity, Mr. Norman Campbell, who has hcen in tho district for many years., died at Otaki Hospital yesterday, nged 68 years.