WELLINGTON TOPICS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1925, Page 4

WELLINGTON TOPICS

lAI FORTUNATE DAIRY PAR.MULLS. SKi;KING STATE SUBSIDY. (Special to " Guardian.”) WELLINGTON. September 18. Notwithstanding liis explicit statement some weeks ago to the otleet that i,. could not recon.oneud the Government to subsidise herd testing assosiatiotts from the pnhlm purse, tlie .diui.ter of Agriculture still is being bombarded with applications lor assistance of this kind. One of the latest appeals lor a Stale subsidy to enable a

section of the dairy farmers to test i heir cows cheaply comes from a Waikato hranclt of the Farmers’ Union which has been assured by the very i a panic managing director ot the New /calami ('imperiitive Dairy Company tied systematic testing not only would materially enlarge the dairy larm.ers’ incomes, but also would enormously increase the volume ot the dairy produels exported from the country and so make life less strenuous the whole community. The Waikato l nion ,| ;,.s not ask merely tor a subsidy; it demands a ‘'substantia!” one. Ibe Auckland ( lumber of Commerce soms time ill'll, at the instigation of the genial general manager ot the Herd Testing Association, made a similar demand upon the .Minister and gave him to understand that the nuttei was one of pressing importance and urgency. But neither the Farmers’ Union nor the Herd Testing Association seems to have taken into account ihe fact that there is scarcely an in dilstrv in the Dominion not as well entitled to assistance ill this iashion as is the dairy industry. All the primary industries are on precisely lh same footing; in this respect and the secondary industries diller only in kind and decree. The precedent oik e created. how would the Minister satisly them alii' WOMEN'S RIGHTS. Miss Amv Kane, the president ot th* National Conueil of Women, fresh from a visit to the United Slates, where site realised for the first, time that .Al.neriian woman are far ahead of New Zealand women in evervlhing that makes for the emancipation of their sex. led a deputation to the Prime Minister yesterday to impress upon the head ol the Government, among other things, the fact that the House of Representatives had thrice passed a Justices ol the. Peace Amendment. Bill, providing; for the creation of women justices, and thrice had allowed it to he throw by the Legislative Count il. Miss Kan stud her colleagues wanted to know wlmt he was going to do about the matter. Mr Coates naively conlessed tliat he see reel y knew where he had stood on the question in the past, lull lie thought he had abstained from voting against th.e proposal lor the creation of women indices on its last two appearances in the House. He could not speak tor his colleagues on a question of this kind, hut he thought he might promise that it the Government were in office next year a Bill alonq; the lines suggested by the deputation would he promoted and presented to the House. This was as mu li as the deputation could expect ill the circumstances and its members wont contented away. AMERICAN ENTER I’ll I-K. In a lu-ief chat in-t before ciimarkiiiq upon the Tahiti on 'luesdav. Mr F. (t. Clapp, a consulting; gening!-*, v. ho bad been representin'; an Anc-i'! can syndicate in an investigation of the Taranaki oil fields, could not i lid need to talk freely al out u hat he called "the business end " ol his v.sit to New Zealand. lie had satisned himself there was abundance of od m the fields, ami be bail no doubt it would be suecesl'ully tapped by and by: but t’ e conditions were somewhat dilIVre'it from those to I e found in the Stall's. lie could not say how hi-, principals v.onlil regard bis teport, übe li -1 ill bad to he pm inn. shape

lull i here was plenty of capital available in the States for such enderlaking- and the Americans liuunl the British atmosphere congenial. Replying to a question. Alt' Clapp, said the labour problem, though pre-

senting inevitable ilillieulties every w here, was much less grave in the Slates tintn it was in England at lh" present time and apparently in New Zealand. The Biitish workman, speaking generally, ilnl not seem to t'Calis ■ the value of " hustle ’’ lo himself as well as to his employer. lie seemed !"• measure lit.-, service by time rather D'nu hv piialnetioii. The American worker was beginning to reverse that order of tilings and finding it to the advaiiiege ol every one concerited. AGRKTLTURAL BANKS. The "Cuvette" issued last night con tained the official notice of the appointment oj the Commission ol In quiry lo investigate the working "1 a'gi ieultiii'al banks and rural credits abroad. Tho scope of the inquiry, it is explained, includes an investigation Into the methods of fmaini.il assislMino allut'iied to farmers in countries and stales of Europe, Kgvpt and America, amt till' It'port is to be Inadc lo the Governor-Genera! not later than .]i iie .‘III next yea r. lie direction-' given to tbe Commissioners Colonel J, ,J. Fsson (( b.airman). and Messrs I*. 11. Cox and AY. J. Poison- are very lengthy, vt'i'v explicit and very comprehensive. and no one with any idea ol the magnitude of the work with which they are entrusted expects their report to ho ready for presentation to the (lovenior-General by June HO. If it is not. then there will he little chance of Parliament giving it much serious attention before th.e session ot )02i, and by that time the whole aspect of I'armors* timmees in this country, may have changed. So. at any rate, say tin* local tinaneial authorities. Meanwhile the Farmers’ Union and the State Bank need not add to the intricaeiox ol the approaching general election. For this relief the politicians well may exclaim “ much thanks.”