THE ENGLISH FARM

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 8

THE ENGLISH FARM

BASIS OF PROSPERITY

THE FRESH MILK POLICY

"We are your largest market—in fact, your only market—for butter, and it is of the utmost importance to you that Great Britain should be prosperous," said" Captain B: G. Briseoe, a member of the British House of Commons,, in an'interview_ with a "Post" representative. Captain Briseoe arrived in Wellington on Saturday from Auckland, arid left in the evening for tho South Island.

■Great Britain, said Captain Briseoe, eouldinot be prosperous and provide a satisfactory-market for the Dominions unless her, agriculture was prosperous. Agriculture was the largest industry in England. It employed directly and indirectly eight;, times the total population of New .Zealand. A prosperous state of tho agricultural industry was insisted upon at Home because today, owing: to increasod nationalism, many of tho industries depended to a large extent on such a condition.

' " Our object at Homo, in my view, is not, to become a, large butter-producing country, but wo must insist on supplying our own fresh milk," said Captain Briseoe. "In order to supply the required quantity-of fresh milk in the winter we must have a large surplus of milk in the summer, and it is for that summer surplus-that we must have a good home market. Therefore, we are going to insist on having a certain share of the butter market reserved for our own, producers."