PAERATA HALL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 713, 10 March 1922, Page 4

PAERATA HALL.

(To the Editor)

Sir,—l would like to ask the Pae- ■ ra’ta Social’ Committee what has become of the money over from the H social'held at Paerata. I was always of the opinion that these socials were H cot up to rise funds for a hall. I H have heard of money borrowed and H of different ones subscribing towards H the hall, but I have heard nothing H mentioned of the money raised from these socials. I am certain the zes given .do not take up the money, then what has become of it. I hear the committee went in free. this cant be /true, when you were anxious to raise funds for a hall.— I am, etb., ‘ W.B. H

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —I have to thank the of the Paerata Hall Committee foSR his quotation from Bobby poem. It is very nice, but why not the worthy chairman “ come u|B|g to it,” land reply to the question, viz., has this hall built by public subscription, or money been raised to build it ? P e jHS haps, Mr' Editor, if the chairman not ih the position or capable wering this 1 question, some member of the Paerata Hall tee may be fable to do so. I do want, MrEditor, to take up any moH space in your columns on this ject, but let the Paerata Hall Cowjjgj mittee come forward and let general public know how' money is being or has been Thanking you again, sir.—l am, e fl|||| KNOWS NOTHIM^H

(To the Editor),

Sir—During the war the to the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co, Ltd, H|||| ceived about half of the world price for their butter., We were I that the ships were not take our butter away, etc. Since war ended we have had the butter bogey well advertised to pare us once more to receive ual half of the world parity priceHH our butter. At the time our butter was being sold to firms in Tooley Street, London, shipload at Is per lb, and which H I us 41 2 d per lb to manufacture cream into butter and to there, The prices of butter per■ 52 of the largest weekly butter kets in the United Kingdom Is 9d to 3s 9d per lb, oven haHHHH these markets being over 2s 3qj|§|||S| lb. I n'the face of these facts, iflßHg sider it is time that the ducers had a voice in .deciding HBbH ther they prefer thdir butter sold privately through m iddIHHHH Tooley Street, London, or on the open markets. *There is y thing seriously wrong when of consumers in the Old have to pay 2s 6d per lb butter while we are selling ter at Is to private buyers. tlemen at Tooley Street, LordHHBH| the price we are to receive butter, for they know quite we have no other method of ino- of it. The English an: 1 HSffißßg farmers put their butter on lish markets in a methodical iHHH and as they receive almost the price for their butter 'iHHH through Tor,icy Street. pic. 1 feel sure that \v>.flHßßSn not possibly do worse than sfIHHHH little half

costs to produce it- We are often referred to the lower prices paid to other suppliers to some of the small er dairy companies, but it would be more satisfactory to us to be informed what the English and Danish farmers received for their butter last year. During the past six months ou r butter has been steadily disposed of but as yet no one seems to know definitely the price we are going to receive for it. If the farmers wish to obtain something like a world parity price for their butter, they will have to take the same interest in seeing that theirs is put on the world’s markets in a businesslike manner, as they do in producing it.—l am ,etc.,

G. H. LONGSHAW.

Bombay, February 22, 1922