LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 540, 15 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

An announcement of inteiest to local jowlers is advertised. The rates for 1920-1921 to be ie'led by the Manukau County Council are advertised.

A general meeting of the Pukekohe Lawn Tennis Club will be held in the Borough Council Chambers on Thursday next at 8 p.m.

A prize of interest to the Franklin district won at the Hamilton Winter Show was that won by Muir I*os., oi Alfriston, for the 12 heaviest swedes grown under field conditions. The 12 'swedes weighed 2011b. Commenting on the proposal to soil dairy produce to the English Cooperative Wholesale Society, the ed'tor of the New Zealand Dairyman writes: "A similar scheme was propounded 20 years ago, the but then be.'ng half the commission back. But there are a few factories in New Zealand who have still a lively of the chimerical nature -A the amounts they received when the people had had ihe<" cut oi-t of it.' Of these L, cuts," a writer in the Wanganui Chronicle marks them down as follows: Retailers' profit 3>-.d per lb; wholesalers' profit 4 per cent., or under 2 tons 5 per cent; importers' profit 2 per cent. These items Were figured on butter at 3s per lb; if correct, the "Times" would like to know where, at present prices, the producers' profit tomes in.