WAIKATO NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 191, 16 September 1909, Page 5

WAIKATO NOTES.

; (TV,.-:: (."••:: ■: :•■:-.:•:.i i The annual «prir.;,' .«}-'■'.'.- of th«: Hampton Horticisitural ?oe:oly attracted : larg»; numbers of interested visitors. Held in the Town Hail, with the whole body of the building laid out with displays of flowers, decorated tables and vegetable exhibits, the general effect was most pleasing, though the recent bad weather appeared to have crippled the exhibit of daffodils, fewer being shown this year as far as I could judge at a glance. The show has been organised solely by the ladies' committee and its helpers, and reflected great credit upon them. The Hummer > show will be held in November, and ; the ladies expect to mcke a great show of i>. The High Commissioner cables that though frozen meat has slightly ad- \ vanced no material alteration is expected until stocks are lightened. Butter is firm : N.Z. 114s; Danish 117s; Siberian 103s. The new brick built Eurekadairy factory was formally opened en Wednesday last. It is a fine structure, admirably adapted to its uses! A patent American hoist is one of the many novel features in the building. Mr 11. J. Grcenslade, who opened the building, spoke of the importance of dairying as the principal industry in Waikato and referred to the recent moisture in butter enses. stating his belief that the Department was justified in its a~liuri. The coat of the building with its machinery was £2.300. New 7. -"stand exports for August show a big increase over the same I month last year: £950,640 as against J £5*3r,,063. Butter, beef, oats, grain, hides, skins and tallow are the items showing the largest growth. In America. I see by a recent letter, prosperity is judged by an increase in imports and a fall in exports, and last year forty million pounds worth of I goods were exported less than the pre- ! vious year, and twentv million pounds j worth of increased irr.pniLi were received in the same period. This j should be helpful to us here. We don't do much with the States, it is true, but every revival of prosperity there, must help us indirectly, if not directly, as America buys unusual quantities of fine manufactures from Europe, and we here supply much of the raw material. I remember a small manufacturing concern I was connected with in Scotland which got an or ier from one American buyer for £3OOO of piece goods. Wool was used and wool alone, in making them, and New Zealand must have had its share in the benefits. The writer of the letter from America I have just quoted speaks most dolefully of the tariff bill now being mangled by the joint committees of both houses. Tait promised before his election that substantial reduction in duties should be effected. As a matter of historical fact, the duties on almost every line have been increased, and the wrangling and log rolling of the various interests who have come up to Washington to defend their precious industries, has been past all records. As the saying has it in another connection: "The trusts and corporations will do anything for the working man in America, but get off his back."