BOBBY CALF POOLS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20501, 18 May 1938, Page 12

BOBBY CALF POOLS

THAMES VALLEY FEDERATION DISTRICT FARMERS COMBINE (Special to Time-*) MORRINSVILLE. Tuesday. That the whole of the Piako county and adjoining district* represented by The Southern Thame* sub-provincial executive of the Farmer-*’ Union was now organised in a fpdeiat on of bobby calf pools was the information p'ven at the May meeting of ihe Morrinsville branch or the Farmers’ Union. At a previous meeting the branch bad resolved to -suppori the existing farmers’ co-operative calf pools by helping to fo -m pool* In j art* "T Hip Morrinsville district wherp no pools were operating last year. In this connection the secretary. Mr C. ratp*. repmted that the SpringdaleElstnw, Tnnliei. Ngnrua and Walton pool* ,had decided to continue tor another year, the Tahnna pool wa* extending it* activities still further, and that pools had been formed at Motumaoho and Kereone-Kiwi-tahl. .Matter* or mutual interest to co-opera- | five hob*bv calf pools throughout the Thames Valley will be discussed at a meeting or the Fair Pools’ Federation at Morrinsville next week. It 1* statPd that ihp pools federated in this organl«atlon will handle upwards of 50,000 bobby calve- this season, and that the support of I practically ion per cent of farmers in the Morrinsville and Te Aroha districts ha* been obtained. Support for the formation or a Kere-one-Kiwitahi bobby cair pool was accorded at a meeting of 21 settlers in the Kiwitahi Hall. A committee to canvass the district wa- appointed a* follows: Messrs F. C. Kennedy, R. j. Pirrit, H. T. Pagnall, R. R. Heaton. N. K. MIKKelSen. R. Charles, A Topliam. R. Cunningham and N. Andersen. A further meeting will be held in the Kereone Hall to elect an executive.