The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. THE BLUEJACKETS' WORK. RECIPROCAL TRADE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 106, 7 January 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

THE BLUEJACKETS' WORK. RECIPROCAL TRADE.

.'With vrMch is inovpure too The T:ii- | tape Post '/.ua Waimariao News.) i

Mr. Fisher, the Com on wealth Prime Minister* is causing some considerable flutter among 1 lie chief of Now Zealand’s paid talking men on the subjects of a naval par.Uiofcship,-.- and- reciprocity. Out attitude’on the joint navy proposal. w.as made quite clear in our issue of Tuesday last we want none of it; and should any of our readers be more than ordinarily interested in this subject wo advise them, to road a .special article, .by an old, and very a,slute, Journalist, -who has had-. years.of experience in Australia as editor of the Sydney Sunday Times, which appeared in Tuesday’s issue of the Auckland Star. The writer of that article is Air Thomas R. Koydhonse, than whom there is no more respected journalist- in New Zealand. Reciprocity is quite another matter; my arrangement by which the marketing of our products may proceed with added facilities must claim our support and encouragement. Hitherto Australia has bought from us because it suited her to do so, and New Zealand has taken Australian produce for much the same reason. An abortive effort was made a year or two ago by our present Minister'for Customs, but owing to a change of government on the other side all arrangements fell through Perhaps it, was as well they did, for they were regarded with considerable suspicion by many of our best and most capable business men It scene, somewhat remarkable that two peoples of the.some origin and race have not developed a freer, more neighbourly and brotherly trading- intercourse than they up to the present have; and if any scheme or tariff can be evolved 'which is satisfactory to both parties; a scheme that does not admit of any suspicion, while the Australian Prime Mini Per is amongst us, it would, to say the least, be very short-sightedness on our part to miss the-opportunity. We are not quite sure, however, that reciprocal trade is the question that is weighing most heavily on Premier Fisher’s mind. M.o seems in no hurry about din clung any agreement, nor oven of going any depth into details of any presumably workable scheme This view seems to bo eon armed somewhat by a cable from. Melbourne yesterday, wl icb says that, it is understood that Mr, Fisher will consult our Afinistry respecting the possibilities of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa entering upon reciprocal trade arrangements after the war; that New Zealand and Australia should enter into any such arrangement •done is not probable 11 lids (ail)!-; says anything, it is that Air. Fisher has no intention of entering into any reciprocal arrangement till after the war, and then only with the inclusion of Canada and South Africa. A conference of Ministers is mentioned but no one is so Polish as to think that any such conference can take place until after the declaration of peace. These facts lead ns to the I conclusion that Reciprocal Trade ' is merely Air. Fisher’s staUdim horse; his real object is a joint! navy. He is inviting, with sny-A cions suavity, the New 7 d fly to - become just a l.’Ule cnentangled in the Australian spider-web; but we may be doing’ Air.- Fisher an injustice j which-

Of. We ..ail hoi km- und'.'vstaiKlnt;v on trade matters with Australia is dosirahh', for the (Vnu■momvealth is already our sccomt host customer. Jf Mr. h'AhcT is in earnest in Ids professions reyarding reciprocity, it should h° au easy matter, if no other solution is possible or 'practicable, to extend the principle of preferential trade. So long as each parly can agree to give and take fair and honourable saeriiiees' vve are j convinced that our producers would benefit by-some such rocipj’ocal arrangement. AY hat we iuivo to avoid is hastily entering upon something so unsatisfactory as to require half of a Minister’s time to parry the attacks of critics. TAIH AIT, MEAT WORKS. The .em:tion of moat freezing works at Taihape is now assured; tenders are being called without dedny and everything possible is to bo done tow-rds having the works < i.mplctod with dors open and workmen ready to receive stock not later ‘tiian the first of December of this year. The promoters and directors of the Otaihape Farmers’ Meat and Produce Company have earned the thanks and congratulations of every man who is at all interested in the progress of Taihape town and district. The promoters and directors luive, right from the first mooting of the project, proceeded with caution, and have spared nu effort to collect information and data to enable them vn steer a safe course. As the project unfolded an enthusiasm, was engendered of such a character as can only exist where the road. Is profusely rose-strewn; and they latterly, became so obsessed with assurance of the ultimate success and value of freezing works to this district that they all invested to a greater extent Ilian they originally intended to do. This, no doubt, gave confidence to farmers, noy only m the Tailiapo territory, but elsewhere, for shares have been enquired for from other localities. Shareholders realise that the executive has followed up the project in a most business-like way. _They have had fortune with them in the selection of the executve officers; their -choice of an engineer cannot be cavilled at, and the secretary, Mr. Lionel Dixon, is simply a concentration of energy and executive ability. Every settler of the district and every resident of the town have indeed c-uise for satisfaction that Taihape Ims succeeded while others have failed, but when the splendid location of Taihape is considered, with its hundreds of miles of superb stock country, no surprise will be felt, for it, is certain, as Mr. James said at yesterday's meeting, that if our farmers had not taken the project into their own keeping, outside capitalists would very soon have relieved them of any future consideration on the subject. That many more than the necessary number of shares were applied for indicates the confidence our farmers liav* in the future earning capacity of such works. Every one concerned will look forward, most anxiously, to seeing, the Taihape freezing works completed, with doors open for receiving stock.

LOCAL A STD (ISNBEAL A first-offending inebriate was convicted and discharged a.( jhe Polio*Court this morjihif. It is 70 years to-day since Ihe first Maori war ecmmonceu. The Wanganui Vi ar began some twenty years later. A valuable horse belonging to Air W. H. Field, -a handsome wellknewu gelding of 5 years, by young Torpedo--was the other day shot, while running on Mr Field’s farm, at Waikanae. Whether the deed was done wilfully or accidentally is nut known. M’r R. Breen,.secretary of the Dune i'cditlcal l.nocur W Presentation C tail in it tec, tologv?phea t.o pie ’!•’vitro Minister yesterday vrrglug him to exercise file power conferred under section 237 cf the Legislature Act and declare Mr Mumo's election for Dunedin Central valid. The Prime Minister lies replied staling tiki! 1 1 & I;; advised p U f the inn Her i-efnrvod to does not corue under section 2:17 r.f the Legislature Act. The happy reply cf a Br’lish officer to a French sympathiser .who, in the trendies, noticed and common ted upon a blood-stained pash, on the left side of his khaki tunic, is renrodneed with great approval by.“a French paper' -- “You have beer I’Ali diy wounded, comrade?” said the Frenchman. “It is nothing,” was the 1 ' quick response. “The Germans sought my heart, but they have riot, found it.' i. have given it to-France! ” ■ At a meeting of the committed of the TAhfi, a .Defence lMfl6‘ Club last night,' it was decided that the Itiwera Cup ; petitions commence on the 17th '.it. The competition consists of three shoots at 200, 500, and COO yanks i anpes and three shoots at 300, 500 and 600 ranges, only the five highest shoots to count. The committee decided to carry cut improvements to the range during tiie coming weerc-end. Endeavour is being made to rrange a match with Te Kapua on the 22ncl.

by public to the dug in railway trains r ‘,,ice authorities draw attention Id i hr penaliics to which offenders arc liable for playing a game of chance hi a public place. The utmost, penalty under the Gaming Act is £IOO,, while under the Police Offences Act the. punishment is fixed at a maximum of twelve months’ imprisonment without the option of a fine. If a prosecution is brought for. an infringement of the railway regulations a fine up to £lO may be inflicted. It was under This last heading that five young men Were prosecuted in Wellington ychtrf’day ■’or card-playing in n railway' train, :nd were fined a nominal amount— The following is an abstract from a letter received by the RangiHkei A. dial P. Association from the secretary if the Hoard of Agruon.Um’O W ‘'Our Heard ban been infonnp.tr that Hfe Oalifnrnian thistle can be best dealt with 'p very simple process in agiicitl ■•mal districts-namely, by hhuriting ■lie cavings at threshing time, so as to cover llio whole of (ho thistle.. To grass country, if fresh grass is cut, ami thrown upon it to a considerable ex-

'ent, it is said that this will completely kill the thistle. Merely putting straw anon it seems to have no effect,,bub ’he caveings and the grass exclude the vir, and therefore the thistle cannot live. Californian thistle is so general-: now that it may be worth the while of any farmer in your district to-give Otis treatment a ti ink