Recruits Responding Better

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 308, 30 December 1939, Page 8

Recruits Responding Better

STILL MORE NEEDED An increase in the percentage of tambing in the past season is shown in the Dominion estimates published in the current number of the Abstract of Statistics. The Dominion average rate is 85.26 per cent., compared with 84.64 per cent in 1938 and 88.71 per cent, in 1937. The highest figure in the past five years was obtained in 1936. when the percentage w-as 90.52. It is considered that the severe winter and dry condi lions which prevailed in the late summer and autumn months adversely affected the current season's lambing in the South Island, where the average rate of lambing was estimated at 86.29 per cent, compared with 90.10 per cent, in 1938 and 91.35 per cent. In 1037. The North Island estimate, however, rose from 81.11 per cent, in 1938 to 84.40 per cent in the current season, but the figure is well below the 83.71 per cent, obtained In 1937. The following table shows the lambing estimates for the past three years and the actual number of lambs tailed in 1937 and 1938: Est. No. Actual North island: lambs tailings 1937 9.145,849 9,437.958 1938 8,600,625 9,068,701 * 1939 9,190,994 South Island: 1937 8,003,668 7,902,956 1938 8.044,540 7.880,278 1939 7,826,601 Dominion: 1937 17,149,517 17,340.914 1938 16.645.165 16,948,979 1939 17,017,595 The number of breeding ewes in the Dominion is stated at 19,960 299, against 13,663,866 in 1938 and 19.332,077 in 1937. A salesman was dismissed because of a lack of courtesy to customers. A month later the sales manager spotted, him walking about in a police uniform. “I see you've joined the force, ’ Jones/’ said the manager. “Yes, this is what I’ve been looking for all my life. On this job the customer, is always wrong.’'