The Daily News. MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1903. THE BUTTER EXPERT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 187, 10 August 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1903. THE BUTTER EXPERT.

The question of appointing a bu'ter expert is one upon which there is room for a wide difference of opinion, We have always held that the wisest course for the colony to take is to seed native born New Zwlandtrs to Deiimaik and Canada instead of importing experts from there. The expeiienea of the colony fo far has been that just when the imported expert has been sufficiency long in the colony to apply his knowledge and experience with advantage, he leaves for other fields. The native boro New Zealander may, on the other hand, he depended upon to bring his knowledge home, and is bstter able to pick up in Denmark and Canada the knowledge we require to compete with fhos) countries. The Ohristchurch Truth, however, which generally condemi s the Government, has good words for it oo <h s orcision, and, as feiving the othf r side of the question, they are worthy cf consideration. Our contemporary says: —" It is quite likely that wherever the Government got its new Dahy Commissioner there would be dissatisfaction. Etjua'l objections might easily be raised to the appointment of a Cantho3e which are marshalled io opposition to the new sppiintment rom Denmark. The fac3 that tha Canadian experts have been entirely successful hitherto, and that the Djnish experts have as completely failed, is not due so much to the systems as the men. In any case the Government must be given credit for doing whit it considers bast for the industry. It is not to be supposed that the Premier has any axe to grind ; his desire is, of course, to push ahead the butter trade of the colony as fast as possible, It hss been pointed out already, that Canadian butter brings several shi!lirg3 per cwt lees in the English market than New Zealand butter while Now Zealand butter realises con-iderably less than DaDish butter. It is a frequent thing to read in our commercial intelligence that while colonial butter has slumped as much as 3s or 4s a cwt., Danish butter maintains its pi ice. Recently we published an interview with Mr A. Busck, formerly connected with the Government Dairy Department, who expressed very dtcided' opinions on the subject. Mr Busjk asked :—" 'When the Canadians cannot increase the value of the butter io their own c:untry, how cm tbey do it in ours ? Until New Zealand a-fopts the system in operation to day in Denmark, we will never be able to compete with Denmark. New Z aland most either briDg her chief experts from Decmatk or send one or two of the best men she has in tre butter industry to Denmark for a few years to get training there. New Zealand i* now years and years behind Decmuk. A good deal of that is due to the impression having got abroad that we have reached something like perfection. Sometimes articles are written which praise up the quality of New ZealaLd butter a little too much, with theresuit that those responsible do not make the same effort to raise the standard as they otherwise might. There is no doubt about the superiority cf tlvt Danish butter. If New Zealand is to go ahead in butter production," he concluded, " Mr KinsellaW'cessor should certainly come from Denmark."