THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “Public Service,” MONDAY, MAY 24, 1943 SAVING OF CALVES

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3267, 24 May 1943, Page 4

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “Public Service,” MONDAY, MAY 24, 1943 SAVING OF CALVES

It will be an excellent thing for the Dominion if it can emerge from the war knowing definitely ,what it shquld do to assist in the immense task of restoration. As time goes on doubtless the opportunities will widen, but a few clear-cut plans, as applied to production, would exercise a strong stabilising effect. The call will be for primary produce in some form. Mr Nash, in the eburse of a lecture recently, said that New Zealand would be able to do much to meet a great demand for milk foods. The herds in some of the leading dairying countries of Europe have been decimated, and the stock remaining is said to be suffering from the lack of imported feed supplies. Dairy herds in Denmark, Norway, Holland and other countries are-reported to have been drastically reduced to provide meat for the Nazi armies, and the productive capacity of the Continent in this respect must be at its lowest point. If, this state of affairs—likely to grow worse instead of better—presents countries like New Zealand with an opportunity to render practical service then preparation must be taken in hand at once. The best of the coming season’s heifer calves must be reared and for more than one reason. There will be a big demand for dairy stock when returned servicemen are being settled on the land, and' this will be one \py in . which the national output of milk 'products can be built up. It will not be an easy matter to effect for the shortage of labour on the farms makes the feeding of calves a burden, but if reserves of young stock of proved milking strain will enable the country to discharge, a vital post-war responsibility then steps must be taken to provide them. What may happen after the war may, to a large extent, be a matter of conjecture, but it is as certain as anything can be that there will be a demand for the foodstuffs this country has the capacity to produce, and in bending our efforts * to produce them no smalt contribution will have been made to the economic stability of the Dominion.