MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(By Electric TeJograph—Copyrignt) bread subsidy. RON DON, Aug S. I lion Chs!J)b*rl*iit, replying in the Commons to a <|in!.sliuii, said the bri'iul subsidy for the current year was fortylive millions, lie bad not contemplated a continuance of the subsidy into tlie next financial year. N.Z. LAMB. (Received This .Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 5. In file Commons, Air Ratcliffo asked why a large supply of last season’s Now Zealand lambs was iL.cried to America, where the highest price on the Atlantic seaboard was between 161 cents and 18J cents per lb. while retail distributors in (treat Britain charged thirteen penes per lb. for old stocks of cut lamb. Mr Mitchell Thomson replied that some mutton and lamb bad been sold j for direct shipment from New Zealand to America, with a view to relieving the congestion in the stores in New Zealand saving voyage charges and hastening the time when New Zealand exporters woftld he enabled to revert to business on ordinary lines. The Ministry lias sold at a price f.o.b. New Zealand which gives the Imperial Oovernment a profit thereon. RECORD PRICE! FOR SIRE. LONDON, August 5. A Buenos Aires racing stock breeder lias purchased the sire Tracery for fifty three thousand sterling. This is a record price for a sire. Since Tracery went- to The stud his progeny have won sixt.v-threo races.