DAIRY INDUSTRY

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1933, Page 8

DAIRY INDUSTRY

“INTERNAL JEALOUSIES.;” NOT GOOD FOR INDUSTRY. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 16. Statement.? that different farming districts in New Zealand were suspecting;, one ; another of being the cause of a portion of the dairy produce being of, .-poor quality ,wer©. made by Mr F. H. Anderson, chairman of directors of the Cambridge Dairy-Company, at a meeting of the Taranaki Federation of Dairy Companies ,at Stratford last evening, when advocating the introduction of: farm diaiiy instruction. .‘.‘The position is that the Waikato says that Taranaki is making all the bad cheese, • and- Taranaki says that the Waikato is,” said Mr Anderson. “I will admit that the Waikato has been making bad cheese, but ther.e is cheese being made much worse.” Mr J. R. Corrigan interposed to say that New Zealand cheese wais the best in the world arid, he eotild prove it. Mr Anderson said the north was being set against the south. Both Taranaki and Waikato were suspecting each other and he knew that some people had positively rejoiced when the-Southland grade went down; Such internal jealousy was not g-ood for the industry.

Condemn.it ion of its own produce by New Zealand: was st-rbngly deprecated by Mr Corrigan. “Even before ; the milk comen from the cow you hear farmers decrying their produce.” he said. He.had had concrete information that r.cents in .England selling New Zealand produce were being shown clippings from New Zealand newspapers and told j>lva't, the produce must bn bad if the producers were saying