DAIRY BONUSES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3106, 11 June 1892, Page 2

DAIRY BONUSES.

MR SAWKRS' OPINION. (by telegkaj'h.—riiKss association'.) Wellington, Last Night. Mil SaweßS, the chief dairy instructor, on heini* interviewed as to his trip to Victoria, said he was sent thore by the Minister for Lands to thoroughly enquire into the system pursued in that colony of working up the diiiry industry. The result was that he would rather see the industry developed as we are d:>ing in New Zealand, by priviile enterprise and co-oper.ition than bolstered up by heavy State bonuses. In four yn,irs the claims for bonuses were nearly £100,000. Many factories started simply tn (jet the honu'ses, that could not possibly pay without, and the system of paying so much per lb according to the price fetched in the Home market opened the door to fraud. State protection had made the trade grow with great rapidity, but he was satisfied that it was not so stable, or on so good a footing as in New Zealand. Ho did, howover, admire the keen supervision exercised by the Victorian Government over the products at the pott of shipment, an example he intended to recommend should be followed here. He also intended to suggest tint a Branding Act be passed, to prevent inferior qualities being pvdrned off, and that cooling chambers be established at the ports. He was sending circulars all round to obtain information for his report to tho Legislature.