LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS

A teacher in Canterbury recently received the following letter from the mother of one of her pupils: "Dear Miss,—Nellie played tenuis at school yesterday and is not well enough to come to school to-day. I let head was very bad all the afternoon, but it worked off ill the* night. . . Another King Charles incident, surely! Tie- Rev W. J. ('oniric, one of the members of the Wellington Minister-’ Association deputation to the Prime .Minister at Wellington, said that it was a pleasure to them all that he had conn* back to New Zealand, and they could still call him plain Mr Massey - Laughter).

The Rev W. (oniric -luted, in the course of the anti-gambling deputation to the* Prime Minister at Wellington on Friday mottling, that lie was a lover of legitimate sport and of burses. What lie was opposed ;o was Hit* gambling evil. Belore lie had joined the ministry lie was engaged in fat ming, and had won a nflmher ol ploughing nialelies; and even now lie owned horses that had won prize- -not on the ratx'coiirsc, hut at shows. Mr Massey said that lie had been very plea-eel to hear Mr Connie say that In' was fond of horses. So was he ; and so. he believed, were most people, lie recommended the deputation to look up the chapter in the Hook ol Job in which I the horse was described. To his mind that was the greatest jioem in the , world. j The Lyttelton "Times” states Fir-i ! grade Canterbury butler i- being rct tailed at Is Rid a lb and Ninth Island I tin tier at Is lid. Groceis say that j were it not for price-cut ting and keen j competition between taetoi'ics. Hie j charge* would be 2s. Christchurch taej lories are distributing supplies at | Is Sj'il, instead of at Is lid, life rat l ' | fixed a few weeks ago. Discussing I |,otter prices. an authority in the ! dairying industries says that the w liole- ! sale price ruling in Christchurch represents on to-day’s Loudon figures a loss to factories operating of at least, o.i.d a lb. It certainly appeared, In* ! added, that producers were paying a heavy price for the maintenance ol their local connection. They seemed to ; hi* losing sight of the* real value ol then I produce in the heat ot the battle h"’ i sunremaev on Hit* local market.

A special train left New Plymouth for Northern Wniroa (Auckland) last week carrying ovol' JSOO yearling pedigree hulls, the hulk of them being for Messrs Finlayson, Diibgaville. The value of the consignment was estimated at over £SOOO. Taranaki farmers are making a speciality of the brooding of dairy stock, anil some valuable but-ter-fat producing strains of Jerseys arc now well established. It is not utn-oie moo in that province lor dairy laiiner to pay from £lo<| to £l5O for highclass cows and heifers, and such animals, even mi their commercial output, are said to give much greater profits mi their i-npital cost that) the orslinarv priced cows. With dairy stock at over £IOO each and dairying land at over £IOO an acre, it seems, a problem how dairying is made to pay, and yet it, is claimed that under such conditions dairying pays better than where cheap but inferior stock ar 0 kept on chenn hut inferior Ifvnd.