LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 653, 26 July 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be a footbaji meeting in tire A. and P. buildings to-morrow . N- j * evening. I The .annual meeting of the Franklin Racing Club will be held on Monday evening next at the Carnival tea rooms. Messrs. Beatty and Marshall notify the public that they are now purchasing pigs and publish prices for live and dead weight. An auction sale ox building timber will take place at Patumahoe sawmills on Saturday at 1 p.m., conducted by the Franklin Farmers’ Auctioneering Co. The official opening of the Manurewa post office will take place on Monday, August 1, at 2.30. p.m., by the Postmaster-General, the Hon. J. G. Coates. The public are cordially invited to be present.

A bacon curing' demonstration took place at Mr Dynes Fulton’fe farm on Friday afternoon. A fair number of ladies and gentlemen turned up, in spite of the rain. Three pigs were prat through, and all those present watched the demonstrator with keen interest. One pupil declared the cutting up was well worth the money, and everyone was well satisfied.

The Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Co. Limited, have l'eceived the ioliowino- cable from their London office : “Butter, Government price, New Zealand, £l2 17s : Australian first grade, £l2; second grade 1 , £ll 5s ; third grade, £lO 15s ; Argentine, £l9 ss, Jill 5s : free Danish, £l3< Cheese, 1 New Zealand, £G 6s, £616. "Wool : Since sales opened, cross-bred have declined further about 5 per cent., especially good medium, lots. . Tallow prices “irregular, but show advance of Is to 2s 6d. Light lambs firm, 1 iy 2 d to Is 2d. Heavy, slow . demand, Is, Mutton, slow, 6yd, Byd. Maple pine market near shipment, firm, worth about £5 c.i.f. The automobile business is the largest manufacturing business of finished‘goods in the world. This year the total volume of the automobile accessory and supply business in America alone will reach £380,000,000, of which over £400.000,000 will represent passenger -cars and trucks. There is one car in use for approximately every 13 persons in the United States, as compared with one for every 268 in England, 402 in France, 684 in Germany, and 5300 in Russia. Europe has 499,000,000 people and only 437,000 automobiles/ It is estimated that 45 per cent, of the automobiles' sold in America are bought by farmers and the inhabitan.ts of small towns. There are abut 800,000 motor trucks in operation in the United States, hauling an average of 4 1 j tons per day each. The average one-mile cost of motor' truck haulage is stated to. be about ninepenee in America. Haulage by horses is estimated to cost Is per ton-mile, and it is said that truck haulage has released 3.000,000 horses for various other purposes in .the United States. Tire automobile accessory and supply business, including tyres, petrol, and oh has reached a volume gv'mt >r than that of the automobile business itself. i