CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1917, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

Oi THE STORAGE QUESTION. To the Editor. Sir, —Do we lack judgment in the handling of our affairs? 1 am tempted to ask this question from the position we have allowed the dairy industry to drift into. We pull down churches to build picture shows, spend plenty of money on bliow grounds for one or two days' outing, lire money into Manure Company Co-Op. Societies, etc., and are spending thousands on education to increase production, and yet, when it comes to storing the butter and cheese, because of a few weeks' delay in shipping, we see this national food carted in and placed in the most inconvenient and out of the way places, where (io provision can be made for cooling, and in some cases where the very highest rates of insurance are charged. Are we prepared to sit down to this stale of drift and makeshift? If we are the rocks are not far ahead. The Government will not finance until the cheese is graded and it certainly \f)\l not be graded in some places it is bclug stored. The Americans want 0,000,000 tons of shipping to keep them going, and have to build most of it, so we cannot expect any relief from there. Therefore I think it is quite time the leading lights in the industry got down from their perches and gave us a strong lead in this matter. There need be no fear about overdoing the storage business. Dairying is merely in its infancy as far >as Taranaki is concerned. What did SSr. Lonsdale say at Wanganui the other day? Every 50 acres properly handled of Taranaki coast land would be capable of earning £GOO per year. Look at the result of the little cows at Stratford show —from IV4 to just on 31bs of fat per day! Wonderful result! Say we had all the cows in Taranaki doing as well? It is possible in time we would want all the storage we could build. Trusting that as soon as the holidays are over this matter will be tackled in earnest.—l am, etc., WILLIE J. FREETH. Pukearuhe, Dee. 14. |