NECK BRANDING
OPPOSITION FROM BREEDERS
WELLINGTON. May 8
Unexpected opposition which has developed among the individual breeders seems likely to result in the Government dropping the legislation proposing to make shoulder or neck branding compulsory for cattle. This legislation was approved by tho New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the Council of Agriculture after consultation with the various breeders’ societies, and was designed to prevent the damage which is now done to hides through rump branding. At the old leather prices this damage represented something like os per hide or alwut £200,000 per year. The approval of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union followed representations by the New Zealand tanners at a time when the binning industry was suffering severely. The tanners recognised that
the new practice of branding would create a. much bigger demand for Dominion hides abroad, but the state of the industry was such that'they decided that they must take the risk of losing trade, and, if necessary, ask the Government to place a limitation on export of hides and a reservation of a. specified number for tho loon 1 industry to deal with. The- effect of the Bill would he to out. the extra £200,000 per annum info the. pockets of the farmers. The Bill vas drawn in> ready for presentation n the House of Representatives last ession. hut owing to the heavy legislative programme it did not come forward. Now a campaign against the Bill has lecii inaugurated amongst the breeders, and the effect of this probably will he the shelving of the whole irojeet. The Minister for Agriculture 'lion Mr Ha when) has been impress'd by the practical objections raised, •me of the cmiimoiipst assertions being that neck or shoulder branding will '•('stilt in difficulty in identifying .stock, partly because of the natural disadvantage of this position and partly because of tho extra thickness of the hide there.
The same fate is likely to befall the
proposals (concerning earmarking, which also received the endorsement of ■the New Zealand Farmers’ Union.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1928, Page 4
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