The Dairy Industry In South Africa.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 2, 4 January 1904, Page 4

The Dairy Industry In South Africa.

MR KINSELLA'S VIEWS. Air J. A. lvrnsella, who relinquished the position of Dairy Commissioner in New Zealand in order to take up a similar appointment in KOIIUI Africa, was interviewud by a Capetown paper last month, aud he jiiuiJe it very clear that his experiei.ve in the country had been rather .disappointing. He iimi been mainly occupied, he said, since his arrival in v, nl i'/yg articles for the Agricultural .11>ui mil, ariid in preparing bulletins upon the siibject of dinry laniviug.. He haii t r i.ki tu ilii'iuci - the Government of the Transvaal to start two butter factories at the mast suitable centres tn tlie country, as an illustration to the fanners of the value of co-operation, aiul the Committsioner of Lands haid approved of the proposal, but tlie nece.»ary nioiaey was not available, laud there seemed little pro6pect of it being provide. But the apathy oi the liovenuncut was not the only oki.tacle to the development of the •ihu'Uotry. Cattle diseases of one kiiil and another were rampant and farmers coukl not be expected to invest large sums ra cows that might ibe carried off before they had made return for tbeir purchase money. Mr Kireiella was not hopeful that ■tlx- stops being taken by the authorities to eradicate tjfae various diseases would be successful. The Government, he explained, was importing 10,000 head of cattle from the Unitud States with the intention of distributing them among the farmers at cost price. The reason the cattle were brought from the United States instead of from one of tJw British colonies was that American stock was supposed to ■be immumed to Texan red-w&ter ar.d weie expected to escape Hhodesian rod-water. Mr Kjnsella was not consent tljut this would be the result He did not think the two diseases were the same, and would not be aurprisvd if the cattle from the States suffered as much as those from Australia and New Zealand, li.oie weic small patches of good {s'iaUug country here and there, he mi J, and larger areas that could bo tmriud to profitable account by initfeu'ticn, but, on the whole, the land was disappointing, and the climate was simply heart-breaking.

News Das been received in Wel]ii.' n 'ton that Mr Kmsella lias resigned his appointment in South Africa, and will go on to Knglaud at an early date with the object of lwtoring his health. He will then return to New Zealand.—Post.