MISCELLANEOUS

Otaki Mail, 27 September 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

I In* M.iskTtuti Dairy Co. is paying wit lyi ii.r buu'-'rlai delivered in August. Considering the conditions, iliis ' oiiij'iires liivourabiy with the -/ t>.’ii>i last Angnst. The departure lrum Masierton ol a \\ i-11 know n local lesident ha-s caused considerable surprise, and not a little consternation amongst members of an organisation with which he was clusely connected. —Age. fur smoking w ithin 3<t leet of a. benzine depot, a man was lined JUI and licensing body for this district. The costs at llie Hamilton Police Court. The rase was slated to be the first of its kind in the Dominion, and tlie Magistrate pointed out that defendant was liable to a penally of CiOO. ihe 15 dairy factories in the Bush district last season spent £4OOO in ined. the Dili lor which grows bigger each year. A dairy expert told the Pahiatua Herald that the introduction ol electric power would yield id per lit more for Imuerlat. Several Wairaiapa cheese companies have received cable offers from London in ms lor two months' output of cheese at 3d per lb f.o.b. This is I cijuivuieit: to l it per lit of buiierlat. i 'flip Waiieinai" Co-operative Dairy Co., whose lU' iniy is a! Waimauku, ■ shows an incteuse ol 33 per cent in the uuipui of iintter ior June, July, and August o'er lhe same period Jasi

A parly ul iluniervilie sports had a good inii it up lor the races at Wanganui. The car they went down in was found to be out of commission at the finish ol the races, so iliey rushed 1 to catch the train only to find it pulling out of the station. Nothing daunted, they took a taxi to Aramoho and boarded the train ihere, settled themselves down comfortably, and then discovered they were bound for Hawera. Getting out at Westmere they had to hire another car to Wanganui and -thence back to Hunterville. —Express. At a meeting ol (tie Wanganui Agricultural Association, Mr J. Blair said that Hie reason id a show was to improve sunk and increase production.

bill tin- hiwr way io improve stock was ito have a goo.l -lie. A member: "ui\e them plenty to eat." Mr Blair ; said it was better to put it into a ' good animal, and he considered that a movement should be made to get rid of "scrub" sires. At Toronto, where they had one of die biggest shows in the world, they had. a monument in memory of die last "scrub" bull. The president: "I am afraid we could not run a monument.' Mr James Hodges said one of the most important things was to see that stock entered as purebred was in the herd books. He added: "The hrst time 1 meet a beast in a purebred c!<u..„ and he cannot produce 3, pedgiree, out he'goes."

A lengthy “black list” containing 52 names of soldiers who were described as “unsatisfactory cases” was before the Horowhenua Patriotic Association on Wednesday. The list was taken-as read.” The Horowhenua Patriotic Association received a letter at yesterday’s meeting from the Minister ot Finance re tlie conversion of 4J per cent tax-free securities into 51 per cent inscribed stuck, not tree of income tax. Holders of the former stock now had the opportunity of converting same. The chairman (Mr P. W. Goldsmith) said the Association held jCIOOO worth of 4J per cent securities. Mr \\ r . Howell suggested that the executive committee should go into the question, with power to act. This view was accepted, and the committee authorised accordingly. “It, seems to lie a lar more serious crime to pay mi adult 1 short wages than to keep a growing child feeding pigs instead ol going to school,' said Mr Button, S.M., at Wanganui, when he fitted a defaulting parent the maximum ol to . and wished he could have inflicted more. The child was nearly 12 years of age, rind was only in the fourth standard. His record for attendance was very bad. An actual decrease of 1,062,772 in the sheep of the Dominion at 30th April last compared with the previous year is shown in a return presented to Cabinet, The total number of sheep is 22,222,259. North Island Mocks number 12,095,05, a decrease of 678,518, and South Island 10.126,454, a net decrease of 384,254.

Acording to accounts given by Ur. j. A. Gilrutli to the Commonwealth Public AA’orks Committee, the Northern Territory possesses some remarkable timbers. The wood ol the kapoe tree, which grows in the Territory, Dr. liilruth said, was so light that a piece 15 feet, long by 6 inches by I inch could be lilted easily between the thumb and first finger. Besides being light, this wood was very strong, and. believing that it would be suitable for the construction of aeroplanes, Ur. Gilrutli, while Administrator of the Territory, sent samples to the Commonwealth aviation authorities. Whether or not the.timber had been tested by the department he had never heard. He also sent samples to Thorne.viTofts, builders of light motor boats, of London, and lie understood that tests of the wood hud proved satisfactory.

More uhd more thoughtful dairymen are coining to realise that in older to have profitable herds they must raise and develop their own cows. Men who have good cows are not anxious to part with them, and the dairyman who depends upon the purchase of mature cows to keep up his herd is forced to pay someone a handsome' profit for raising them, or else be content, with the culls of other herds, liven when he pays the high price he is not certain that the cows lie buys will prove a profitable investmjent. It will be~ Tounjd much cheaper and more certain for the average dairyman to raise his own cows than to paV someone a profit for raising them for him. It is a fact that most of the best-producing herds in the country have been bred and raised by the men who own them.

The relations of the Government, the Power Boards and the local bodies in regard to hydro-electricity i are not yet clearly defined, and promise to present several delicate problems. The Government, tor instance, | claims the right to serve certain con- , surners in some of the Power Board i districts. Speaking at Tuesday's j meeting of the Horowhenua Power : Board, ilie. chairman, Mr G. A. Monk, said tiie Government proposed to suplily the freezing works in the Wairarapa. He contended the Government ' had no right to select what might be the Power Board's beat customer, and would go further and say that even the Government's workshops at Petone should take their power through the Board. He understood that in tiie Waikato the Government was supplying the dairy companies direct. Mr Gunning said it practically meant that certain consumers would get a preferential rate, and that should be opposed. Mr Matheson: The Government should act solely as the manufacturer and the power boards as the distributors. Mr Seifert pointed out that the result of the Government's policy might be that the other consumers would have to pay for the Government's losses. The Boawi was unanimous in objecting to the staie being entitled to pick the best out. of the consumers, and the matter will probably be discussed at the forthcoming conference of power boards.

The Government's anxiety io convert tire '4 per cent tax free bonds into 5j per cent tax-paying securities is suggested to be due to the fact that companies and institutions which are taxable on the highest scale have been acquiring this stock In order to reduce their taxation burden. A contemporary says; Attractive as the 51 per cent rafte, subject to income-tax, might seem, it was manifestly not so alluring as 4j per cent securities which were not sub-

• ject to income-tax. Tney gave a rej turn equivalent. with the current I rate of income-tax, of 7 per cent per annum. It was no wonder that 1933 I and 1939 stocks were popular, and I they would probably remain so. It ■ was not improbable that the Government thought in' putting forth the • conversion proposal it would arrest the transfer of holdings of these securities from people of moderate

means at the present satisfactory prices to institutions, companies, or individuals whose incomes were taxable on the highest scale. If this were so it might have the effect of blocking the whole of the persons who quite legally were seeking a way 1 out of the payment of incotne-tax, and who were wealthy enough ko buy up such income-tax free stock and, bands in order to evade taxation. All j that could be donT was to “wait and ( see" now the proposal works. If there , was a reduction in the income-tax. a desirable but most unlikely event, then there would not be quite such ' eagerness as a: present to buy -ij per Cluts, -

“Considering the times, .1 don’t think that we could expect other titan soma little trouble in getting our repayments for monies advanced to soldiers, but on the whole tilings have been quite satisfactory," said Mr P. \\\ Goldsmith, chairman of the Horowhenua County Patriotic Association, at yesterday's meeting.

A soldier settler wrote to the Horowhenua County Patriotic Association yesterday stating that he was in hospital and could not meet his re-pay-ments for the loan from the Association, but would do his best when he got, out of hospital and back to work again. The Association decided to let the payment stand over, and expressed the wish that tlie soldier would soon he well again. V young AA'anganui lady was driving a car recently which stopped fairly in the centre ol the tram-track, i he engine seemed to be doing its best. It whirred and raced every time it was asked to do so, yet, in spite of the fact that many volunteers were helping.it with a push off, the car refused to budge. Everybody was becoming anxious as a traincar was about due, and just then came along a man motorist, who offered several suggestions, which produced .everything but locomotion. After another look over, he at once offered one more suggestion. “Madam,” he said, rather severely, “perhaps you might get. your car to do something for you if you didn't stand on the brake.” The fair one gave him a frozen stare, but the car shot off the mark pretty quickly.