DAIRY INDUSTRY

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1933, Page 2

DAIRY INDUSTRY

N.Z. BUTTER GIVEN AS PRESENT

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LONDON, December 21

In a useful act of mutual propaganda, 'Mr Sandford, on behaf ‘of the New Zealand Dairy Board, presented each of the five’thousand employees at the Vauvhall-Bedford motor works with a half-pound packet of butter. Mr Sandford emphasised that the more British workmen used Dominion butter, the more Britsh cars and trucks . the, dairymen would be able to buy.

CHEESE EXPORT RESTRICTION

LONDON, December 21

Messrs R. L. Cohen and K. A. Murphy have completed a study of the effect of butter and cheese supplies on the milk, published by the University of Oxford Agrcultural Research Institute, The authors contend that New Zeaand would gain by restrictions of cheese exports. It- might pay her to turn somewhat from cheese-making ■v’ttov Tlie reduction of 20 per -cent in. New Zealand cheese exports i,j jumain tyouid restore the total cheese supplies to the i 928 levels, and might raise British milk prices to seven pence pfei* gallon, it is improbable that the Dominions will agree' to more than 10 per cent restriction on butter.

GRADING OF N.Z. PIGS

'WELLINGTON, December 22

It is likely that'strong representations will be made to the Government in the near future, to have enforced the aready gazetted regulations providing for the grading of pigs under the supervision of Government officers. At-a• meeting of tli.e Mananiatu-Oroua branch of the New Zealand Pig Breeders’ Association, representatives of the; curers’ interests --were' present, and a full and frank discussion of the whole question of grading. took place. A resolution was passed as -a-result of which it.-'is boned that far reaching modifications of the present lax enforcement of the regulations will shortly he -brought about-. Th,e move is the outcome of widespread discontent that has ..been... prevalent among farmers of 'Manawatu 'at ' the grading their stock has received.