GOOD DAIRY PROSPECTS

Shannon News, 2 September 1924, Page 3

GOOD DAIRY PROSPECTS

REVIEW BY MR GOODFELLOW,GERMANY A FACTOR. AUCKLAND, August 27. An optimistic note was struck by Mr W. Goodfellow, managing director of the Ne\v Zealand Go-operati.ve Dairy Company, when giving a survey' or the world markets in relation to dairy produce in the comsu oi an address at the animal dinner of committeemen of the company. As lie louked back over the 15 years during AVmeli he nad been associated avit.u tne 'dairymg industry in me Waikato, ivuGoodfellow said, he marvelled at tin wonderful changes that liau taken place and the progress made. '-u----teen yearn ago there were practic.i.liy no. nnlking machines, there were Jew motor cars, 110 motor worries, and o--u„\ baa roads; firere was no such tiling as. home separators, suppliers nan to cart their milk to creameries, wnere it was separated, lire industry hau prog-r-issea and avioulu continue ,y ino-prog-ressed and would continue to iuumuqn development as fiie last .15 yean Ihere would he be iter roads, Janus wouid be siilall-e-r, tnere avouiU be il-av. er mortgages a.nd more stock, the output per cow would be greater. ’

.The industry had passed unougn one of tne severest-.siumps the country had ever experienced, but, iouking at things quite impartially, ire was convinced tiiat fbe future womd show, improvement. The prosperity of tne dairying industry w.as dependent in a large measure upon the earning power oi the British public. Wnen British people had money they spent it and the rate of consumption ol dahy produce went up accordingly. The authorities had stated that litefi would be a British boom trade year. By that time Germany would be ..-.hie to trade on a gold basis and considerable business would be done between Britain and Germany in manufactured goods. Germany would provide a big outlet for butter, casein and dried milk powder and this factor made him more optimistic than for some time past.

Alter reviewing the prospects oi dairying industry in various countries, Mr Goodfeliow said he did not anticipate any expansion in tile next two yeans. §iberfa was not a menace and dairying was not profitable enough to encourage farmer’s in Amenicaor Argentina, In both New Zea, land and Australia the output showed a decline.

The speaker went on to- refer to ill* drift to the towns and said the only remedy was to get back to the IP4 basis as regarded the exchange values of produce, goods and service.