The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929. THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1929, Page 4

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929. THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

* N L l ,< ‘ fiIC-II inst;iini\s of (lie i ouiiLry’s healthy the best neeomils eontinue to ijc received id tile cuiid it ion of the dairy industry. Dairv"‘K is :l Ki'<-!it factor in the national prosperity, and some parts,.particularly 1 " 1 1'e North Island, great strides are lieinp, made. The Auckland province is showing a .great advance. This year’s I etui'll is the best lor three years past. Against the return of I<)2G there is an advance of forty per cent. Compared with 11)*.',, the increase in products is twentv-live per cent. Despite this, over . last year. 1928. there is an increase oi twelve per cent, to he shown for 192!). The figures in other parts doubtless show relative advances, ter the output and export in the aggregate. has been steadily increasing for sonic time, locally, following the excol'eiit Iced supply of last year, the output shows an increase, and this cannot but lie rellected upland down the (oast. It would' appear.that Lhe-re is .going to be a market for all the dairy produce .\“w Zealand can exrort. In the markets of the world the New Zealand article has a good name, and that is its selling faet.nr. apart fnain any advantage through a “short’’ market due to Hoods or other drawback’s in other countries contributing in the world’s supplies. New Zealand, n.rurt rom the strong and stable market at Home, is building up a ose'ul market n both Canada ami the I'nited States. \'oiv there are possihilit ies in the Kast. inrtieularly Cliina. where Japan and Vnstralia have a fooling. Australia tas regular enmniunieation with the

Far East and is well .situated geographically to scr.e China, being sciond willv to Japan. That market of course means so much less supply for the hmid"U market. where New Zealand has world-wide op| ortuniles. Still, any madid was alwiiy.s desirable a limy business lines, and the more countries New Zealand could serve, the tetter for (he future ox pun.si n of the industry within the l.ominon. It is evident mtore people are g.iug to he put on the land , now, and the Ijulk of them will aim at dairying as the main pursuit. This will mean more production and a larger surplus lor e..port. On that account no possible market s on d he ignored. New Zealand under its dairying system p:\duees oi necessity a lirsi-da.vs article. It will jury the country to pursue its daiiy'ing developments along such lines, and all e./iieerned in the trade should he widens lu see that a lirst-elass artic.e is produced. Dairymen eaiiinot watch their herds to ch.sely and see that the host results are returned. The Government department over many veins no>v has done a great deal to further the interests of dairying. It is an avenue in which very good work has i.een dune, and the results and standing of the dairying industry in Now Zealand are a tribute and a justification for the policy founded in the old Liberal days. In the I ton G. Forbes, as Minister of Agriculture, there is one capable of gauging the situation in a practical way. lie is a I armor with an inside knowledge of the settlers’ needy and diffi. ultics, and he should he able to shape ti, * v «rk of his Department to the Lest advantage Almost immediately now lie will he disclosing something of his land proposals, and the policy of placing more people on the land. The type of ettler wanted will lie largely those disposed to dairying. Smaller rather than larger holdings of land are to he provided. and something, too, will have to be done in c<|uipping the settlers for a ■ tart oil. Their produce will have a ready market, which is a first consideration in such a venture, and as this increase comes about, the wider the market for the pralita.ble disposal ■d the goods the belter. The country •an look with confidence to a greater and greater output of dairy pr, rluce, mil the consoipicnt introduction oi more wealth into the ouimcrv.