LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4537, 9 March 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At last night’s meeting of t,he Borough Council the following scale of charges was adopted for taxi license:, to ply for hirfc from the town to the course on race days : Not more than 7 passengers, £2 ; up to 16 passengers, £1 5s ; over 16 passengers, £5 ; plus a driver’s fee of 2s 6d per taxi. This is conditional that a nominal charge of not more than 2s per passenger is charged to the racecourse, or viceversa. Mr D. Leach, of Paeroa, has received advice that his son, Gunner D. L. Leach, lias this year won the Rhodes Rifle Belt, for being the best rifle shot in the sth Battery, N.Z.F.A., Wellington. This Belt is competed for during the battery’s instruction weeK at Fort Dorset each year. Mr W. Goodfellow, managing director of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., announced on Wednesday that an amicable agreement had been at - rived at with Joseph Nathan and Company, that litigation had been abandoned,, and that there was every probability that the fult.ure relations between the companies would be of a friendly nature. How £4 4s per week was saved to a supplier by simply speeding up the rate of his separator was related to a representative meeting of dairymen in the Soldiers’ Hall, Paeroa, yesterday, by Mr Garry, manager of the Paeroa factory of the N.Z. Co-opera-tive Dairy Co., Ltd. The supplier, he said, had complained to him that his cows were doing no good, and that he was not. getting the butter-fat ne should be getting. Accordingly Mr Garry asked him to bring ir. a sample of his skim-milk, and pn this being done it was. found to teslt, .5 per cent. On the number of cows he was milking this meant that he was losing £4 4s a week, and, naturally enough, dairying on these lines could hardly be profitable. Mr Garry suggested that the speed be increased, and this had the result of reducing the skimmilk test to .03—a very satisfactory reduction.

Tlie Borough Council last evening approved of the District Electors’ Roll, .as amended. This roll is now open ‘for inspection. Claims for enrolment on the supplementary roll will be received by the Town Clerk up to 4 p.m. on April 12.

Apparently a large number of farmers are feeding turnips to their cows this season, with a consequent reduction in the quality of the butter being made at the Paeroa factory. Specking to a meeting of dairymen yesterday Mr Garry, manager of the factory, stated that the turnip flavour in a great, proportion of the cream being supplied now was inos|t pronounced, and was causing a great deal pf cream, otherwise good in quality, to be graded second. As showing how insidious this flavour was, he mentioned that although care was taken to see that every can of cream showing the slightest trace of turnips was separated, even butter made from cream containing no detectable trace of turnip flavour developed that flavour by the time it reached the grading store. He had long held the opinion, he said, that while a few suppliers mighjt with careful treatment use turnips without affecting 1 the general quality of the ibiitter, so soon as a majority of suppliers began to' use turnips the result became most marked.

At a meeting of the Kerepeehi Sports Association held on Tuesday last a peculiar position in regard to the programme was disclosed. The Inspector of Police, to whom it was sent for approval, was of the opinion that many of the events constituted horse racing, and therefore were illegal, but he would not, give a decided answer, and suggested that the association obtain legal advice. The meeting decided that this should be done, and in the meantime to make preliminary arrangements for holding the sports, as even if some of the programme was cut out other events could be substituted, so that with the jumping and chopping events an interesting clay’s outing could be promised. i