THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1912. THE WASTE OF WEALTH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10711, 1 October 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1912. THE WASTE OF WEALTH.

In a thoughtful article on "The Waste of Wealth," the Mercantile Gazette s'avs: —"There is an enorm-

ous waste in this country because the chemistry of butter and cheese is not .known. One has merely to study and analyse the figures and returns given by.the various dairying companies to realise this. According to some figures published in tho last, issue of the Dairyman, the Little Akaloa Cheese Factory paid 16$ d for butter fat during the past season, while the Oaonui factory, which' is a very much /bigger concern, paid only 13d, a difference of 3jd,., which represents waste at some point. The butter factories show a difference of 2g-d. There is waste on the farm as well as in the factory. Wo suffer a great loss every year owing to the system of branding hides. There is waste through neglect or carelessness in' the breeding or feeding of wtock. the slaughter of calves in the dairying districts, though not quite so prominent feature of the industry now, was a terrible waste, and the present high price of beef is; partly due to this. There is the waste of time and money at the saleyards and stock pens. Industrial discord is responsible for much, waste. Probably nine-tenths of the world's work is more or less slummed. A colossal waste is proceeding everywhere, which can and. should bo obviated. Tf stopped, it would provide capital with a fund so greatly in excess of its present ordinary business profits that it could "afford to give the lion's share of those profits to labour, and not feel inconvenienced. Whether uy not pro-fit-sharing represents a practical solution of the present unsatisfactory situation, the future must decide; but wo cannot ignore industrial unrest as a factor in preventing national progress." Our contemporary refers to a paper read before the Royal Society of Queensland in which the president pointed out that by sending away unscourod wool Queensland in 1910 lost GOOO tons of potash. The woo! contains 1.4 per cent of lanoline, and the State threw away this pro-

duct in 1910, to the value of £1,000,000. In the same year the Staleproduced 7,370,460 gallons of molasses, nearly all wasted, although i.!;■-■ product contained nearly S.ODD.OOi; gallons of alcohol. There is -i prodigal waste in tho mines. He stated that one mining company alone permits 800 tons of sulphuric acid per day to bo wasted. Tho same authority states that one-third of the coal supply is left in the senms through faulty methods.