NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2162, 12 August 1920, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“A London poultry-keeper (says the Nottingham Hnardiati) is trying the experimenl of treating his birds to a little music each day to see if it has any effect on the production if eggs.”

Mr V. if. Poller’s iden regarding immigration policy is that I lie right type of immigrant must be .-eleH ed. New Zealand dins not want the men who expect to come out here and find everything ready for them. “We want some of the hardy Scotch type. The member for Bailer may laugh, Iml tin 1 more we gel of those the quicker he will have to gel out." What Labour wanted was recruits for the Federation of Labour; men who had been out of work for a year. If llie-y were going lo gel I lie agitating, diseonienled type, well, the country was overcrowded alreadv.

The Otago Daily Time:- - ays; “We have been shown a Dunedin limhei merchant's invoice of date November, .1898, in which 225 feel of red pine of various size.-, are charged for, the cost being 225, including a charge of 2s for earl age. As showing how the rales for both timber and cartage have increased Aneo the lime mentioned, our informant has supplied us with the following comparative figures;—lß9B, 225 feel. 22>; 1918, £2 Ids 7d; l! lid, t'J 2s 9(1; 1920, To 18s mI. In these ligures the cartage for the respective years is included, and for that item the figures are 2s, ss, 8-- ami 95.”

Are New Zealanders to be compelled to use coarser Ilnur.' That is what is happening in England. A late number of "The Miller" announces that the British millers ore ordered to extract SO per cent, of the Hour from (.he wheat, thus bringing bread to war quality, obviously to eke out their supplies of wheat:! Jn New Zealand the common percentage of extraction is <2, and 14 is exceptional. The English paper points out that to extract 80 per cent, of Hour leaves only 20 pm* cent, of bran and pollard, and thatIh« reduction in the available quality of these secondary products must have an injurious effect on the quality of butchering livestock.