BOBBY CALF TRADE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5321, 3 September 1928, Page 2

BOBBY CALF TRADE.

ADDRESS BY MR. LYE. PLEA FOR CO-OPERATION. Little interest in the details of tlie bobby calf trade wits showp by Hauraki Plains farmers on Thursday laUt. when Mr S. Lye, of the Waikato and Thames Valley Calf By-Products Co., Ltd., visited the; district to address meetings. At Turua only thr'ee or. fqiU! farmers turned up anti l the afternoon meeting was abandoned. Tlie presence, of a earload of Turua farmers at Ngatea in the evening enabled a meeting to be held .in that township. Mr Lye- dealt at length with all aspects of the big business, which he had ita.rted, and emphasised the necessity of farmers supplying hlealthy well-nourished five-day-old, calves to; enable the business to be put on a. tound footing. He dealt at length with the agreement entered into, by his company with the- National Dairy Association 'whereby in eon.siideratio,n of it withdrawing, from .the business in, this territory and assisting him as much’ as possible during the present season, he was tq hand over the: business to the National Dairy Association without payment at- .the. en)! of the season. Mr. Lye claimed that the as 'oeiatiqii was not fulfilling its agreement, and instead of assisting Ills company was! working against it. Fanners had been a.ske'd through the “Exporter” not ,to supply any concern, but the Natiqnal Dairy As'ociation. Possibly' this was due to thefact that the association had entered into foolish contracts to supply enormous; quantities of calf skins, e,tc. In order to save the National Dairy Association from being sited for breach of contract ihe had agreed to supply it with calf skins at a considerable loss to the cojmpany. However, not content with this, the association was still wWk’ng in hi.si territory, and he was contemplating seeking an. interlocutory injunction! to re'trajn it. Mr Lye made a. plea to fanners to support his concern, which was building up a new business that would ultimately become of great benefit tq dairymen and would 'shortly become their own business. He. pointed.’ out that if the trade got into thte hah|ds of vested interests, as there was a great danger, qf it doing, the farmers would, never receive, more, and possibly not as much, for their calves than they were now receiving, despite the fact that there was enormous possibilities for the. trade when markets, were developed- and sufficient quantities of calves were Ihantlled by one concern, at ofic place to warrant thejinstallatiqn of the expensive machinery nece'sary to dqa.l with fill the byproducts.