AUCKLAND GROCERS ASSOCIATION. SUPPLIES OF PRODUCE STOPPED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 360, 17 April 1889, Page 6

AUCKLAND GROCERS ASSOCIATION. SUPPLIES OF PRODUCE STOPPED.

Auckland, April 9. A lajuje and influential meeting was held in the Masonic Ball, Pukekohe. yesterday attemoon for the avowed purpose of i consi eiing what steps could be taken ito break the power of the Auckland Grocers' Association. Mr Thomas Wilkinson, who was called to the chair, briefly explained the object of the meeting, and called upon Mr Chadwick to tay what had been already done in the matter. Mr Chadwick read a letter which had been sent to the various centres of population, i.e., Franklin, Waikato and Noithern districts, asking the settlers of these places to co-operate with Pukekohe in refusing to supply any dairy produce to members of the Auckland Grocers' Association. It> was I stated that the wealthier portion of the people of Auckland had been paying one shilling to fifteen pence per pound ior butter for some weeks past, whilst the farmers had not been receiving more than 7d to 8d for it. For eggs they had been paying 2s to 2s 6d per dozen, and the Association's quotation to the farmers was Is to Is 3d. It was considered by the meeting that these pro its were pimply outrageous and intolerable, giving the members o£ the A«-ociation 50 to 100 per cent, on their outlay, whilst the producers were barely able to exibt. After a lung discussion the following motion of Mr Chadwick seconded bv Mr John Allen, of Hillside, was unanimously adopted, "That this meeting pledges itself not to supply dairy produce to members of the Association upon any terms. " Although the price of New Zealand flax is quoted in London at from £37 to £40 per ton, there is every probability of prices ranging higher oiving to the anticipated failure of the manilia crop this season. The Waikato Land Association have a lar/^e area of good flax growing near their Hillside station, which would givo work for an extensive plant, and is well worth inspection by parties desiring to embark in this industry. The following remedy for that dreadful disease — cancer — is published in the columns of a contemporary : — Cancer cure. — 2oz sulphur, quicksilver, loz of cream tartar, loz saltpetre ; put them into a pint of molasses, stir ; take a tablespoonful before going to bed. For outside application : One bottle of British oil, loz oi red precipitate. The sulphur and quicksilver must be thoroughly mixed for a lone time in a druggist's mortar, and then the other ingredients added. I wish, the writer says, that this could be published in every paper in the land, and that in after years I could have the satisfaction of knowing that many have been saved from horrible suffer ing and dejath by its use, and that it may-: be regarded as a reliable specific.