POLITICAL NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 610, 11 October 1913, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

COMPENSATION FOE STOCK. The question of amending the Stock Act", as suggested by the Eon D. Buddc, in tLe direction cf raising the 5 standard of value on which compen- ■ sation ia paid to owners of condemned dairy stock, is is receive considers tion. auckland-th kuiti telephone. i In order to relieve the present con- , ; <rest?on of 'ho telephone wires between ■Tg Kuiti and Auckland, the Post- ! master-General informs Mr Yr-ung i that he bag given authority for the ejection or an additional wire between Hamilton and Auckland. As the extension o£ iu'3 wire to To 'Kuiti i: nn considered urgent, it is being Held over meantime. CHEESE QUALITY. The necessity of improving cn the quality of sums of the cheese exported last season Js fully recognised bv the directorates of the dairy companies, and also by tria Government, and this matter lias been thoroughly gone into at many recent annua! meetings of these companies. There 5 5 every ! reason to believe that as a result I the quality of thi=3 season's output ! will show a considerable advance, states the Minister of Agriculture in answer to a question a3 to whether the Government will, in view of the serious position regarding the quality of cheese exported 33 disclosed by the High Commissioner's report, take steps to cc-operaia with dairy companies in oider to bring about some efficient method of inspecting milking sheds, stockyards, milking machines, and methods of manufacture, etc. MOTORS AND HEAVY TRAFFIC. Instead of a multiplication of wheel taxes, Mr Leurenson has urged the Government to improvise one tax on heavy vehicles. In reply, the Prime Minister points to the difficulty of distributing tha revenue equitably among the local bodies, adding that the difficulty has been met in the Municipal Corporations Act as regards districts adjoining cities and boroughs but those provisions are inapplicable to general extension. The Government have under consideration a Motor Regulation Bill, containing such pro-

visions, and it may*be found possible to apply a similar scheme of distribution to the case of heavy traffic. It would, however, ba probably found advisable to first submit such proposals to the conferences of local authorities before introucing legislation. FARM LABOURERS. The frime Minister stated this week, in reply to Mr R. Scott, that the Government has made arrangements in view of the increasing scarcity of farm labourers, tn secure a constant supply of suitable immigrants from the Motherland.