THE DAIRY REGULATIONS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10066, 6 February 1909, Page 4

THE DAIRY REGULATIONS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, February 5. The dairy regulations, which were introduced last session, came in for some discussion at this morning's meeting of the Auckland Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. The President (Colonel Allen Bell) said 1 the majority cf the farmers were in favor of dairy regulations of some kind, but he thought the Union should call together conferences of farmers to discuss the new regulations. Mr Wilson thought the suggestion a good one. He felt there was need for good regulations, and if the dairymen of the Dominion could be induced to take every care they would be able to produce butter equal to that manufactured in Denmark. Mr Schmidt suggested that the Government should copy the Australian legislation on this subject. The President said that there were demands in these regulations which were unreasonable, and it seemed to him that they had been drawn up by someone lacking practical experience. So far, however, in the Waikato, the aairy inspectors had made no unreasonable demands of the farmers. It was decided to hold meetings of dairy farmers at the various centres to consider the question of the new regulations.