TO MEET LOWER PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 10

TO MEET LOWER PRICES

IMPBOVEMENTS ON FABM AND IN FACTOKY.

. To meet tho competition of butterproducing countries with a lower standard of living, New Zaeland must produce more butter and better butter. The producing of better butter is partly a factory question and largely a farm question. In the factory, the Department of Agriculture (Dairy Division) employs thirteen instructors, including instructors in cheese. The Department also employs about forty farm dairy instructors, who operate on.the farm itself, and may be.regarded as the first lino of defence thrown out by the little army of officers ■ enlisted to raise the standard of New Zealand's dairy produce. . The factory instructor corps is mostly recruited from tho ranks of managers of dairy factories—from those who have made good. The large district constituting the middle belt of the Dominion (the southern part of the North Island from New Plymouth and Napier downward, plus the northern part of the South Island) had the services of two instructors last season. The number will now be three, for Mr. D. Hull, manager of the Cheltenham Company, has been appointed as butter instructor, with headquarters at New Plymouth. In order that more assistance may be given to South Island dairy companies, it has been decided to transfer Mr. H. J. Petch, butter instructor at. Hamilton, to Chrifftchurch. His district will include Canterbury, north of | Ashburton, and tho West Coast. Mr. E. G-. Melton, dairy instructor and grader at New Plymouth, has been transferred Jo Hamilton to succeed Mr. Petch; Mr. G. Purvis, manager of Mauriceville Dairy Company, has just joined the Dairy Division as grader and instructor at New Plymouth, and succeeds Mr. Melton.