Abattoir Killings.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 4

Abattoir Killings.

The following stock was slaughtered at the Municipal Abattoir during April: —Cattle, 461; calves, 191; sheep, 18(?7; lambs, 337; pigs, 343. Killing fees were £92 19s Id higher than those for the corresponding month of last year. Masterton No License League.

At the quarterly meeting of the Masterton No License League there was a good attendance of members. Mr G. Masters reported on the work of the Young People’s Temperance Debating Society stating that it was showing good progress. It was arranged to hold the League’s annual meeting on Wednesday, July 26.

Dearer Moton Tyres. An increase of 5 per. cent in the wholesale and retail prices of motor tyres in Auckland and other parts of New Zealand has taken effect, and it is expected in some quarters of the ■retail trade that further increases may follow soon, a Press Association message reports. The tyre distributing companies explain that the rise is due to an increase in the cost of the raw materials, but it is generally attributed by the retailers to the effect of the Government’s import regulations, which have reduced .the quantity of imported tyres by 15 to 20 per cent. Stocks in New Zealand, supplemented by imports, are expected to be adequate for requirements for some time ahead.

Motorist's Lucky Escape. Dazed when the van he was driving skidded into a bank and turned a somersault on the New PlymouthOpunake main road before dawn yesterday, Mr Malcolm Yeates, New Plymouth, recovered his senses to find the vehicle afire and his foot held firmly. He managed to free himself from his shoe and crawl from the overturned van, which was a total loss. Mr Yeates was driving down the slope when the back wheels skidded on the high crown of the road. The van became uncontrollable and ran into the bank, somersaulted, and came to rest upside down. Mr Yeates was stunned and did not realise that the vehicle was upside down till he saw the flames.

An Empire Wool Pool. Control by the producers instead of by the Government in the marketing of primary produce was urged by the Dominion president, Mr W. W. Mulholland, at the opening of the thirtyninth conference of the Auckland Provincial Farmers’ Union. “Price fixation is an impossibility, of course,” Mr Mulholland said, “but it is possible to attain some degree of price stabilisation with some elasticity.” When he was in Sydney he had discussed the mattei’ and the conclusion reached had been that what was necessary was an Empire link-up of wool producers as a special entity. This was possible by the establishment of a pool along the lines of the Exchange Equalisation Pool operating in Great Britain. This pool would buy wool at the bottom price and sell wool at the top prices. In between the high and low prices the ordinary 'trade would operate. Such a pool would, over a period of years, make enormous profits and effect the desired stabilisation of prices.

District Nurse Proposal. Support for the movement instituted by Miss McKenny, D.8.E., and district member on the Wairarapa Hospital Board, to have a district nurse appointed in Pahiatua, was forthcoming from Pahiatua Borough Council at Monday night’s meeting. Arising out of discussion on the Wairarapa Hospital Board levy, Councillor Carthew mentioned that Miss McKenny was of the opinion that if the council was sufficiently interested, it would be able by its backing to assist materially hei’ efforts to have a district nurse in Pahiatua. He stressed the value of such action, and added that it had the approval of the medical profession. Councillor Carthew moved that the borough support Miss McKenny’s proposal for the appointment of a district nurse in Pahiatua. Councillor Hodd moved as an amendment that the matter be held over for a month to obtain the opinion of the county. The amendment lapsed for want of a seconder and the motion was carried.