AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[by TEI.KQRArn —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION

PRICE OF FLOUR. SYDNEY, Jail. eJ. The wholesale price of Hour lias beer increased by 10s to £lO 10s per ton. x.zT" farming.

AU ST RAM AN ’ S OP 1 N TO N. I (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 31. Interviewed on bis return from, an extended visit to the farming districts of the North Island of New Zealand, •itr E. Break well, principal of YTtnco Agricultural High School, and an experienced agriculturalist, said that apart from the highly successful dairying methods and unexcelled efficiency in" factory equipment for the production of butter, cheese and dried rod '■ products, he found little in New Zealand agriculture to recommend it for adoption by New South Wales farmers. General crop practice is not so advanced as in most- parts of this State. The majority of farmers were rather conservative in their opinion. Mr Breakwell remarked upon the almost entire absence of co-operation in N.Z. between the ordinary farmer and and the Department of Agriculture in the wav of experimental plots which have been adopted so widely and effectively in New South Wales.

OLD WORLD SHIPPING POSITION. SYDNEY, January 30. Lord Mac-Lav, a leading figure in the British Shipping world, has arrived on . health visit being accompanied by ■l.adv MacLav and daughter. They proceed to New Zaland after a short stay. Lord Mae Lay declared the shipping outlook in the old world was depressing as trade was still much restricted while expenses of operation were very high;