THE POULTRY EXPERT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 29 November 1910, Page 4

THE POULTRY EXPERT.

A correspondent in this issue appears to be under the impression that the Age has charged the Government Poultry Expert with being an idle person. The Age has done no such thing. It merely stated that, so far as could be gathered, the expert bad visited one chicken-raiser in Mastcrtoti. If he had visited forty, or a hundred, and had uttered words of poultry wisdom as golden as the eggs of the utility lien of the Wairarapa, the argument would not have been affected in the least. The point the Age desired to make was not that Mr Brown was ' not worth his salt- but that the Government, by its own actions, had admitted that the money expended on the poultry industry was not well-spent. These are days of economy. They are clays when the most rigid, scrutiny should be exercised over public expenditure. And, however nice it may be to have an expert for every, branch of industry in the Dominion, it is not expedient that such experts should be roaming the country, unless it can be clearly demonstrated that the country is getting value, for its money. It has yet to be shown that the x oultry Division of the Department of Agriculture is a paying proposition.