Dairy Farmers To Get a Bonus

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 2

Dairy Farmers To Get a Bonus

MR. PR ft ; SEASON’S SALES REVIEW PALMERSTON NORTH To Dairy factory suppliers eateT winter with the certainty that a ** f a bonus coming to them.—ThuT* * W M'. Grounds, chairman of th”*’ 11 ’ Produce Control Board, speatA Pahiatua yesterday-. Mr. Grounds announced that payment in respect to the pool, covering the grading September till October :li . b -- available for distribution to * this week. The average lised for the pool, which comj’ l 405,414 boxes, was 161 s 5d a cw?®*** senting an f.o.b. return of l s The proportionate vnidine 11 were: Finest, ls 33d per lb cent in pool: first, ls 3Jd p.: a * per cent, in pool: second, ls 216 3.2 per cent, in pool. As a result of the pool. ~ Grounds, a total of £ 1,454 SS6 is : would be paid to factories’ whn. levy- amounted to £5,912. e « PROSPECTS OF SECOND P OOL It was perfectly clear now tinued Mr. Grounds, that thereV'" be no reclamations in connection v the second pool as the market , stood at 15Ss to 160 s, with better pects ahead. American and Canw sales, totalling over 160,000 boxes at aged 170 s, and materially ' second pool. Records of the cW handled showed an equally favours? position. Everything pointed to £ board being able to affect a dearai of stocks before the opening of a new season. CANADIAN TRADE TREATY WITH GERMANY By Cable.—Press Association. —Copm;. .OTTAWA, Tuesday The Minister of Finance, Mr. J. s Robb, will go to Europe shortly. The chief purpose of his visit is t 3 negotiate a trade treaty between Cat. ada and Germany.—A. and NZ APPLE EXPORT FIGURES DECREASE ON LAST YEAR (From Our Resident Correspondent) W ELLINGTON, Wednesday. The season’s export of apples is apeeted to reach 540,000 cases, or approximately 200,000 cases less Uu: last season, although still greatly fc excess of the previous season’s espon figures. Packing is almost completed. Prices, according to Mr. C&mpkei! Director of Horticulture, have so Ir been quite satisfactory. NEW ZEALAND TRADE THREE MORE LINERS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. The New Zealand Shipping Company is ordering three new mediumsized liners.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. xe mbmp wgfp wkwp ykwp wkvrp yp SHEEP-STATION SOLD A CANTERBURY PROPERTY Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. The well-known St. James’s Station, situated near Hanmer, and owned fc. Mr. C. H. Ensor, was offered at auctioyesterday afternoon, but after bein? passed in at £II,OOO, it was later sold privately- for £11,250. The purchaserwere Mr. James Stevenson, the we! known Canterbury sheep-breeder, anc Mr. R. Dynes, who has been associate with the station as manager for son* years. MINING NEWS MOANATAIARI.—The mine mana? f ’ wired this morning:—Have secured another 201 b good picked stone leaainf stope seaward. HAU RA Kl .—The water has been lowered to within 3ft of the chamber of the 300 ft level. The No. 3 level r the Welcome Find shaft is now cm* water and a considerable portion of jf 300 ft workings and the back ends of - level should now be clearing. ing has been delayed during the owing to trouble with the guides having to renew the bylaunder fro®/-; surface to the 220 ft cistern. Th® 1 tom plunger is losing its efficiency. - the Cameron pump has been make up the deficiency-. All shanj . bers are in good condition, but _ the w-rought-iron work has to be newed. MAJESTIC.—During the ending May 14, the main low lev® ‘ been extended 32ft. through eralised country, making a total ai» of 2,386 ft. southward. A develop® 1 ' just taking place in the present where a solid body of quartz is from the footwall, at right —, r next few feet of driving will K l '%!.*;- indication as to whether this is a ate body, or part of the b-m-*® < system. The country enclosing tne system is of a very favourable cnara . and the conditions generally esc . the belief that the pay-able z P ne ,}L*ti approached. The low level is bo point 100 ft. southward of the e . northern face of the level overne**--