LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4311, 31 August 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The/Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Commission resumes at Paeroa tomorrow.

A poll tor the raising of £31,000 for the purchase of quarries, plant, machinery, and the erection of county offices is being 'taken by the Hauraki Plains County Council to-day.

Mails close as under for South Africa and the East and Commonwealth of Australia, via Sydney, per Maheno, at this offce at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, September 2. For ‘Rarotonga and Tahiti, per s.s. Flora at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, September. 9.

During the course of Mr Baron’s meeting with the pig breeders at Kopuarahi yesterday, Mr J. Miller said that there were less pigs in New Zealand now than there were 40 years ago. Other speakers upheld these remarks. ,

Mr Baron, during his address to the farmers at Kopuarahi yesterday, in order to stress the point that proprietary companies, though perhaps offering higher prices for pigs at present, would not be of any benefit to the farmer, quoted a little story.. A certain Mr Roland Hilli one day saw a very orderly procession of pigs walking unattended to a slaughterhouse. On enquiring from the slaughter man how he got the pigs to .walk so .easily to their own doom, said : “I drop a bean here and there, and the pigs follow the beans to ,the slaughterhouse and walk to their own doom.” Mr Baron explained that the beans in this case were the extra money being paid by the proprietary concerns, and if the farmers wer ( e not alive to the fact they would "walk to their own doom,”