THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 18, 4 January 1912, Page 4

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

AX EX-TAR ANAKI MAX’S VIEW'S. Mr R. C. '.rempler, well-known to many of our readers, writing to the “Lyttelton Times” on January Ist, remarks:— . . . “There is one claim of the Liberal Party which has long been the cause of merriment to those interested, and that is as to the wonderful assistance they have g 1 an to the dairying industry. I happen to have been intimately connected with this particular industry since 1893. and therefore claim to know, not only something about it, but somo•hiug about the feelings of the men connected with it; and I can assue your correspondent that in the North Island the opinion of men of all parties is that the industry owes little to any Government. We owe much to the inventors of the separator and die freezing machine. After that wo nve all, apart from the suitability >{ the climate and country, to the indomitable pluck and organising skill )f the men who have been the leaders >f the industry.’ What the Governnent has done has been done grudgingly, and only at the insistent pressure of the people interested. The grading system, the appointment of dock inspectors, the present system ;f dairy inspection, etc., wore all >ronght about by the constant and ong-continued pressure brought on lie Department by the National Dairy Association and others. There are dill others, such as the long-promised experimental station, which we have •ot yet got. These are things of .•Inch I speak from personal knowedge. Ido not wish to disparage vhat has been done, hut merely to mint out that practically nothing has ome from the initiative of the Government per se, and that none relent the claims of the Liberal Party n this direction more strongly than -hose farmers in Taranaki and Auckland who for reasons support that oarty.”

Referring editorially to the above, ho “Times”* thinks Mr Templcr “is •urely a little ungenerous in denying he Government 'all credit it has ;ivon to the development of the dairyag industry,” .and points out that ‘ln common fairness we must renemhpr, that the Government cstabished the Department of Agriculture, which j our correspondent admits, has >een open to the pressure of ‘the. Kaiprial Dairy Association and others’ md' under this "pressure has done a :ast amount! of, useful work which Aultl hot be 1 , accomplished either hjhe separator or the climamtfe. We aay point out, too, that the largest lairying district in Taranaki, where, according to our correspondent, the ’armors are resenting the claims of he Liberal Party to have done somehing for them, lias just elected the Minister in charge of the Department s its representative in. Parliament. Jlhis . was/ a \vaf ’of showing* resentaont which less fortunate candidates m both sides of politics would have men glad enough to suffer.”