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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4706, 2 June 1924, Page 3

“In England 'they are now actually experimenting with rubber-surfaced roads,’’ said Mr F. N. Thompson, Public Works engineer, at the Napier Chamber of Commerce meeting. “The results show that an excellent surface can thus be obtained, but the cost is practically £5 per square yard, against 10s per square yard for concrete, which makes such a proposition impossible in New Zealand.’’ "One of my aims is to place tlie pig industry on the same footing as the dairying industry in New Zealand," said Mr K. W. Corringe in responding to the toast of "The Department of Agriculture" at the Farm School smoke concert at Invercargill. "If we put our shoulders to the wheel and co-operate 1 feel sure that the pork industry will be productive jf millions of pounds annually.’’ “1 believe J am correct in saying that only about 10 per cent., of dairy farmers are really doing their best. Eighty per cent, deliver to the factory a medium of passable cream, wh'le the remaining 10 per cent, should not be milking cows at all,” said Mr J. W, Smith, Government dairy instructor, during .the course of an address at Palmerston North to the members of the Manawatu and West Coast Dairy Factories’ Association.