DAIRY EXPERT FOR LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 8

DAIRY EXPERT FOR LONDON.

A MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. . When speaking at lvaupokonui on Saturday tho Minister lor Agriculture said (according to iho Taranaki press) that • the Government was going to consider the question of sending a man to England in connection with the dairy industry. The Minister is reported to havo said also that instead of curtailing the expenditure on the Agricultural Department, as some suggested, more money should bo expended, because it was necessary that there should be a man in England who w.ould look to the quality of tlyj cliceso and butter sent there in order to advise New Zealand pro- . ducers wher-; to correct their arrors. Answers to inquiries made by a Dominion representative tend to show that tho Minister's references are not to something new, but to a scheme which originated a few years ago. When the Dairy Commissioner (Mr. D. Cuddie) was in England a few seasons back he laid the foundations of a scheme whereby the Government was to have a dairy produce expert in England, who would odviso the New Zealand office of the quality of the butter, its good points, its defects, etc. At the same time Ihe head of the Meat Division in the. Department of Agriculture was in England, and Mr. Crabb 'was appointed to look after tho meat interest?. The dairy expert was never appointed. It is thought by some that this season's operations have caused the Minister to revive the matter, for, although the graders have found tho export butter to be of' finer quality than ev;r, reports of fishiness come from London. frequently of late the Minister for Agriculture has referred to the possibilities of the pig industry. At Kaupokonui on Saturday ho said .that last year's exports of bacon and ham were valued at .£35,000, which was a 300 per cent, increase on tho previous year. He reiterated his belief that pasteurisation would be a means of enormously benefiting the trade.