CURRENT TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 20 April 1914, Page 4

CURRENT TOPICS.

GRADING AT 13ATRY FACTORIES. Government grading' of dairy produce before, export lias admittedly given our butter and cheese a .big advanage, but we. should not rest there. Recently the Director of Dairying, Mr. D. Cuddi'e, advocated the grading of mill; and cream at tho factories, and payment according to grade, in order to encourage the delivery of milk which should not only be rich in butter-fat, but also clean, and therefore suitable to tho manufacture of Hugh-grade produce. Our rivals in -New South Wales are receiving similar sound advice from their chief dairy exIH'i't. Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, who, condemning the practice of delivering inn;i lor L'i'oam to tlu» factories, gaid* u lf tanners only received, for * ,- 11K ] third quality erea-ms. setwnd and third pneos the practice would'cease. l ' m '° for tho production of such' cream certainly lies in the graiihnr of all supplies at the factories, mid in 'paving suppliers according to grades. ■Vc want- efficient testing of all cream' and payment to the fanner for every pound of butter manufactured from his cream; we want efficient i-rodin-' of cream-, and payment for that mum according to grade; and, finally-, we want ellicjcnt. grading of butter and payment tor same according to quality." JfiH, ~r what New South Wales wants we already have, lint grading at. the factory. oil the basis of puritv, is an improvement which we still lack vet it has behind it the rccmnmendntion nf tne. (.'overnment experts of both Zealand and New Soii'li Wales.—■ Wellington Post.

A.Y UNWISfI I'KOOEEDIXG. Any one who suggested that our 131■hain specials should receive medals for their' Work would be laughed at, and yet m all probability the JCltham men are "lore entitled to medals than anv' other section of the specials (remarks the /•"*)• ,J !'«>'• at all even! 5. saw some active service, had a few heads broken anil iiroke a few by way of returning . l, ;:'»l>l""e..t. They had more fnn and hgh.mg than an,1,0.l • else-for which flier were grateful. Rut we »i»"e |"'t uiet a. man amongst them wl, 0 i* ' t,,r » *** The lolly of the presentation business lies i n the <«<•■ that it tends to perpetuate the j Memory of an occasion Hint would better I be lorgotton. It tends to embitter tlio town versus country feeling that no

sensible person wishes to see exist. Any man who would lie foolish enough to wear the silly medal would be holding out a challenge. It. should never be forgotten that the overwhelming majority of tlie strikers were not men of violence. They wijre quiet, sensible, hard-working men wiho would have been only too glad to go buck 'to work if they could have done so with safety to themselves and loyalty to their unions. It was a ease of many hundred* of men, against their own better judgment, being led into trouble through the indiscreet, lang'uage and actions of a i'ew irresponsible hotheaded leaders. Many of the strikers and their families are sull'ering bitterly to-day— not for any willing action of their own. but because of the action they were driven to by injudicious leaders. v