DAIRY REGULATION REPRESENTATIVES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9666, 3 December 1909, Page 4

DAIRY REGULATION REPRESENTATIVES.

Several members of the Opposition have been christened "the dairy regulation representatives" by their colleagues on the other side of the House. "They came in on the flood tide of the dairy regulations," commented Mr R. B. Ross (Pahiatua) in the House of Representatives on Wednesday last and this was regarded as an excellent Parliamentary joke. A number of Taranaki dairy farmers petitioned the House to do away with the obnoxious regulation, but the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. T. Mackenzie) pointed out that the dairy regulations never were in existence. There was. however, a system under which dairy inspectors visited the farms and factories, and instructed the farmers. Mr G. V. Pearce (Patea) congratulated the Minister upon the new system, and added that the Minister would find it much better to lead the farmers than to drive them.

NOT ENOUGH STICK. Speaking at Timaru at an official reception accorded him by tne local authorities, Captain Blunt, of H.M.S. Pioneer, made an interesting statement in regard to the boys who are trained on his ship. He said that he found the young New Zealanders to be made of really good material, but they require discipline. He thought that the mothers and fathers of to-day were responsible for the lack of discipline which was a characteristic of the raw recruits. They were far too indulgent, and instead of correcting th3ir children with the stick (as they themselves bad been corrected in youth) they said, "Oh, don't do it again." New Zealand boys of to day required to be dealt with by a firm hand, and when so dealt with they turned out the best men He thought it a great pity that after rive years' training on the cruiser they should be allowed to go adrift anywhere and anyhow, and he did not think that it had been the intention of the late Mr Seddon, when he suggested the training ship, that this should be so. The boys were well treated on the boat, and besides the moral and physical advantages they gained on it,. their money was saved for them, and when their time was up they had a good sum to draw.