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Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1931, Page 6

A strong protest against what lie described as most unfair competition arising from farmers killing meat, was made bv Air E. Aleakin, at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Master Butchers’ Association. He said that farmers all over the country were killing meat. Tho position was not fail to butchers who had to keep shops and pay license fees and comply with regulations. Farmers were allowed to kill meat up to a certain amount, and that was all right provided they did not sell it. But the trouble was that people were going to the country from the city and buying meat from fanners which they brought hack and sold to their neighbours. Several members supported Air Aleak in’s protest, and it was decided to bring the matter before

other associations with a view to a strong protest being made to the Government.

“Nature,” the leading journal of science in the British Empire, published in London, states in a recent issue;

“-llr James Drummond, of Christchurch, New Zealand, who tit the age o.' sixty-one years lias retired from ordinary practical journalism, for a long time lias successfully combined work on a daily newspaper with natural history. Interested in the botany, zoology and geology of his own country, and realising that in the newspaper Press he had a unique means of passing knowledge on to the public, he seriously and earnestly took in hand an educational work in this direction. Every week for twenty-five years he has published a popular natural history column in a syndicate of leading Now Zealand journals, with very gratifying results, evidenced by many expressions of appreciation. He has also published a number of hooks on New Zealand natural history, of which the most important, “The Animals of New Zealand,” was written in collaboration with the late Captain F ,W. Hutton. and is in its fourth edition. Mr Drummond has published books on other subjects.”