THE DAIRY REGULATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 107, 2 June 1909, Page 4

THE DAIRY REGULATIONS.

PROGRESSIVE DAIRYMEN MUST BE PROTECTED. The characteristic note in the Hon. T. Mackenzie's striking speech at the EkeUMiiua banquet of the Fanners' Union wa s the effective maimer in which he faced and replied to criticism (says tlie Xew Zealand Times). It was, alter all, natural to the ,in«u that when he addressed his first big gathering of farmers as a Minister he took up no apologetic altitude. He set out to prove his, ease, and -in doing so captured his critics.

A case in point 'was bis answer to a remark 'of Mr. J. C. Cooper in regard to the dairy regulations. Mr. Mackenzie said Mr. Cooper had stated that the regulations 'were not required, and immediately afterwords observed that what the Xew Zealand farmer should aim at was to produce only 'high-class products. How, asked Mr.' Mackenzie, were they to maintain, a high standard in the export dairy produce of the country without regulation? They must have some system of checking the misconduct of those>who. by reason of filthy practices, would cause their milk to damage the whole .-'apply of the factory. He would not refer to the particular dairy regulations criticised, but he would say (his of the future work of the Department in this connection, that lie was perfectly Satisfied that any reasonable recommendations of the dairy farmers of the country would be adopted. The chief object would be to prevent the milk af it lie negligent supplier damaging that of his more careful neighbor.