Telegraphic News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8197, 25 May 1906, Page 8

Telegraphic News.

(Vcr Pr<**« A#somt?'»n}. ill, Tilt* ' The following Hbows .jtbe increase in the vaJu*" ion* of farm la-ml iti the district# around Bi<mhesm :—lrt Springcreek district the lota! of new valuation# on tho unimproved value i* an increase of £81,000 on last .vahatioii three year* ago. In the Omaka dUtrict She new valuation on UP,improve<J value Ik an mere«wo of in three veara. DUNEDIN, Tim Day. At. the firrt attßttftl meeting'of the New Zealand PftjMfr Mills ■ Coy. thi* J afternoon, the chairman said that never before in the history of papt'rmakiag in thin colony ha* there been *uch ft dearth of raw materia] of good quality, lieferrinji to competition from outside he claimed (list the colony was regularly canvassed from end to end by representative* of British and foreign milK which were able by means of abundant supplies of cheap, raw material and cheap labor to land & good article at & low rate. When the colony is used as a dumping ground for the surplus stocks of low grade, find when elaborately-printed bags were landed which paid duty on material only and nothing on the work they bore,, the handicap ott the colonial article was to > severe. He appealed to the shareholders to help the company, by inducing tradesmen to supply goodi m locally made wrap peri only, j