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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 23, 28 January 1916, Page 8

A bull, the property of Lord Coventry, recently sold in Gloucester market, England, weighed 1 ton 71 cwt,, and realised £55. A record pric e for a bacon pig is quoted in the English Press. A large White Yorkshire breed sold at £24. The previous highest price was £l7, which was paid about th e same time (November) of the previous year. The annua? festival for farmers in the Feilding district, the A. and P. Show, is to be held on the beautiful racecourse and show-grounds . next Tuesday and Wednesday. All arrangements are complete, and the quantity of the entires indicates close work for the judges. The train arrangements, including lioliday fares, are suitable for residents along the whole west coast from Wellington to New Plymouth and cross country from Foxton to Napier. Refreshing rain has just “ topped off” things splendidly for the Show. A very interesting return has _just been compiled by the. North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Ltd., showing the comparative values of stock in the North during the last few years. In 1908 the average price for cattle was £3 6/6 for the five months July to November inclusive; in 1914 the average price was £5 16/11 for the same period; in 1915 the average was £6 14/6. As illustrating the effect of the war, an average has been struck for September, 1913, and September, .1915, and this shows that in the 1913 period the average price for cattle was £4 16/5, while in the 1915 period it was £5 12/3. Tlie price for sheep was also increased in a marked degree. In 1908 the average price of sheep was 1.3/5; in 1914 it was 16/11, and in 1911, 24/6.

In discussing the question of extending trade between Japan and Xew Zealand, the Japan Times says: “The Japanese Government, it is understood. has hitherto refused to subsidise a Xew Zealand service, but t-his fa fi t should not deter some enterprising shipowners from trying out the new line There exists in Xew Zealand a group of the most influential business men ready to financially assist any proposals towards the establishment of a Japan-New Zealand line. Their assistance would take the form of a guarantee on backward cargoes. It is to be regretted, therefore, that the trade‘between the two countries should not receive the stimulus , that is required in'better shipping facilities, for it is a trade which would become in a very few years a great asset to Japan’s commercial activity, and which would equally benefit Xew Zealand.” ,