NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 93, 19 December 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

We have received a rather unique and exceedingly useful map of New Zealand, which, in addition to information such maps ordinarily supply, gives an authentic record of all butter and cheese factories in New Zealand. The map does not stop at that, however, for it also furnishes the names of all meat

export freezing companies, their respective registered number, location of

works, their killing capacity per day, and also their respective storage capacity. It also furnishes the information that on April of sheep in the Dominion was 24,595,405; and the number of cattle 2,020,171. The wool exported for the year ending 30th September, 1914, was valued at £8,349,882. The value of frozen meat exported, with hides, skins and tallow, totalled £6,816,543. It also gives the export of butter for the year ending 31st March as 395,109 cwt., valued at £2,140,019. The cheese exported in the same period was 742,39.1 cwts., valued at £2.195,273. Altogether, the map is a most instructive and interesting - one, and it should be sought after by all who are in anyway engaged in the industries concerned. It is indeed doubtful whether so lucid and handy a record has ever been published in any other country of the world. We congratulate Mr. H. Cl. Kill, the enterprising representative of the Bristol and Dominion Producers’ Association, Limited, on the thoroughness and general usefulness of his publication.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of the December issue of The Journal of Agriculture from the Government Printer. The general interest is well •sustained throughout this current number. There is absorbing reading for the scientifically inclined as well as for those with ultra practical leanings. The article on Primitive Vegetation of New Zealand by bur capable biologist is most interesting and very acceptable. Sheep-breeding in New Zealand is ably dealt with by Mr. James G. Wilson, and there are quite a number of ar=v cles of more than average interest and usefulness.