The Hawera Star. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1933. DAIRYING CO-ORDINATION.

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 13 June 1933, Page 4

The Hawera Star.

TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1933. DAIRYING CO-ORDINATION.

Delivered every evening by 5 o'clock in Hawera, Manaia. Kaupokonui, Otakeho, Oeo, Pihama, Opunake, Normanby. Okaiawa, Eltham, Ngaere, Mangatoki, Kaponga, Awatuna, Te Kiri, JJahoe. Lowgarth, Manutahi, Kakaramea. Alton. Hurleyville. Patea. Whenuakura, Waverley, Mokoia.. Whakamara, Ohangai. Mcremere, Fraser Road and Araeata.

By throwing last night’s .meeting open to the Press, the executive of the Taranaki Dairy Federation was able to bring Mr F. 11. Anderson’s advocacy of dairying reform more fully before the public than would have been possible by a series of public meeting's in the limited time now available before the opening of the N.D.A. Conference; .it. is to be hoped that every dairy' company directorate which intends being represented at Hamilton will give earnest consideration to the terms of the Cambridge remit. The Cambridge proposal is based on the principles advocated in the original Mangatoki remit, hut, while seeking greater measures of coordination of all dairying units under the Board, it does not aim at the reconstitution of the Board itself. The reason for this is not that reconstitution, including the method of election, i« unnecessary, hut because such great difficulty is experienced in obtaining anything approaching unanimity of opinion in dairying circles regarding new constitution. Some favour the one-man-one-vote principle of election, some the council system, some election by factory directorates. It is (noticeable, in passing, that the existing tonnage system lias few champions. In the

face of such diversity of opinion it is wise, at the present juncture', to leave the Board as it is and concentrate upon building an improved organisation beneath the Board and' at the same time widening the scope of the Board’s responsibility. The present lack of coordination between the Dairy Research Institute, independent dairy laboratories, federations of farmers, the Dairy Division and the Board is the cause of tremendous waste of money and effort. The need for remedy of this state of affairs with the object of enabling the Board to speak on. behalf of the whole of the industry is urgent and will grow more urgent in the immediate future, which is certain to bring changing ideas and new complexities. It was stated last, night by the chairman of the Federation (Mr T. A. Winks) that if there arose a united demand by the industry for the right to organise and conduct its own affairs he was certain the Government would not be obstructive, but in the- meantime, with the industry not, knowing its own mind, it had no alternative but to carry on with the organisation at its disposal. It is to be hoped that Mr Winks’ assumption regarding the' willingness of the Government to step aside the moment the industry is sufficiently grown-up to tuii its own affairs may prove correct in the end; it js certainly true that the greatest bar to progress lias been the industry’s own apathy and lack of unanimity up till now. By adopting the Cambridge remit the industry can take the first step towards the goal of organised co-ordination 1 , the lack of which has proved so costly to dairying and to the country up to the present.