NOTES OF THE DAY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2179, 18 June 1914, Page 4

NOTES OF THE DAY.

Mr, CudDle's address to the- National Dairy Association at Paimerston is a reminder of the great work 1m has done for daii'yiii'g in. the 'Dominion' since J» took charge of this division at the Department- of Agriculture. His efforts tb win (or Neiv £cakad butter a foremost place in the Kui.v-k.et have bc«n untiring, and the measul*. of SBccess already wan by the worjc of himself and his assistants, 'with the hearty co-operation -sf the factory managers and dairy-fa nnei's, can be judged frwn the commercial cablegrams --appearing in our columns week by week' through the year. As everybody knows, who has had anything to tlo with dairying, Ms. Ct-DDis has looked with misgiving -on the growth of the home separation system. It is nwich- to be preferred,' of coarse, that the farmers, should deliver their ffiilk at the factories and creameries and the separation be- done there, tinder the best conditions. The expansion, of the industry <aM the state- of the roads in inaay oatlying districts have, however, made this impossible, and each year has seen a steady iscreaa;in the number of 'farmers who sepai** ate their milk at 'home aiwl send the Clean) out. to the factories. In the old dAys the Dairyin.g_|).iy'ision was able to concentrate, its educative work principally on the factories. Now every one of the hundreds of farmers with # separator has to be reached and made to feci, lot instance, the necessity for absolute cleanliness. . MR. Oosßtfi strongly urges that all cream should be graded and paid for according to. finality. In this proposal he is \vki.ely supported, and probably ft© more effective- .means could bo devise/d of maintaining the high standard- already won by the Dominion's btv'tcr.

The widespread movcnwitt for tte itjiprovcfiioni and beautifying of qui l towns should receive a useful jtuiw* lus ixom the visit of the- British town-pkiiming experts, Messrs, Reach and Davxdgu. In the course of. a 8 infcorotow published in the jy«//v/ Jecs yesterday, Jin. R;ea&e made some interesting suggestions for the en'liaiieaiiieiit of the mftgnifie<mi water-front-age &f . Kew Pi'y* mcrat-h. A well-cfcsigned scheme of improvement there ntigbt -easily, as Mil. HiiADE points out, make iHe town -one of the most, attractive seaaide resorts, in. the. I3oraitiio»i ii&d amply repay the initial cost foj' drawing' annually a steady sti'earn ei holiday visit-Mrs. fhecitizetisof Hew Plymouth have always sfaown eoni-me-ncbb-le eiite.rpri.se in eo-ojie-J'ati.ng for the adv-anemneflt of their to\vi\ afiijl the sclienjo to be shaped by Sl.it, D'avibge m lijs-visit'nfiSt aoiitiuvlH np doubt encourage them to further efforts* As Mb. &a ; di3 jsolnte «mt, it is necessary in a}] town iftpro-vonwttt .to look well ahead; . In Now Plymouth, as in many other cerrtvesj te> serves sit aside w the original lay* ing out of the towft hay<J been- allowed to slip away f'roiii tlie eon'tar-sil of the a-Htiipriiics, and now Jitfuscs jwd backyards stand.on what; wa ; s traefl iiw T-twn Belt. 'fiw&wgh eotth&iH&ps, when terrtpted to dispose of rouniei}>al reserves, waiik} do ivejl to pause a, mbfttent and; .veilcct that this coaintvy—and iuciAmMity t.Wi town—is likely to h-avo a very considerable future ahead of it.

A jumakkabwb situation has «risen ia the New Saath Wales Police Force, ,Tv.'o pttficovti.cn were recently convicted of assault on an arreted person, and the saint; night a Bicoting of 200 members of the' Force in Syd'iipy decided te circulate lists appealing for subscriptions towards the prosecution of a.a appal. It was Stated that subscriptions from private individuals would riot ho asked, hut at the same time .support wwald lx> welcome from i.li:osq who ( cared to contribute without the asking. The action of Me. 3. H. Cask, Chief Secretary 'in the HowhS Labour Cabinet,'was to give prompt support to the refusal of the InspeetprGeneral to alio* the subscription lists t-o he eireukted. "If this sort of thing is going to be . . ~" said Mr, Gakjj, 'ilica you might as well jnifciate Tarnrtaßy right away." Hundreds of private citizens would be only too ready to subscribe to : anv fund the police might nanw. with 1 the sole object of getting- tt« Fores under their influence. This incident is interesting- to New felandws, as it puts the "attitude of Australian Labour towards the maintenance of order in the sharpest contrast to that nf tho Dominion's Bed Federation, What would this Labour Minister have said to the anarehifial doctrines put forward by tins lied Fcctercition 9MTO months ago? Yet what is t-he much-talked-of "Iviberal-Lakot-r" compact in Now Zealand but a des' pevate flirtation with that organisation in its political guise.

"Show me a, large landholder and I wilt slww ymj a Mftssej'Ke," was one of Mn/WnrfWiD's flights _of fancy at his CbristchuVch inewting r,;i Tuesday evening, and the auoM'ence, we fli'K trtlct.. enjoyed this choiew /«'« wo/. Their enjoyment, wo sluml-d imagine, 'was Hat unconnected with tlto fact that on tJj.fi nlntfovin with the mftinhcr for Hvif.l; was his eoUengiiß, Mil. 0. W. iitrssEU., first lieutenant to . Sir Josßfn Ward, ami the proud possessor of GO.Oflfl acres of "God's own count yy." the member far Suit lias spent, nearly fealf his lifetime in Parliament, but be is still a baby in polities, and an enfant terrible to his party-