PLANNING IN DAIRYING.

Auckland Star, Issue 154, 2 July 1934, Page 6

PLANNING IN DAIRYING.

Addresses of exceptional importance were delivered at the Confei-ence of the National Dairy Association in New Plymouth last week. The Director of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture made it plain that quality of butter and cheese could be improved. Mr. Singleton told the conference that butter made from cream delivered daily was, generally speaking, better than what was made from cream delivered less frequently, yet 30 per cent of our butter was in this second delivery class. Dr. Marsden's address was an advocacy of planning in the industry, but he made it clear that he did not mean planning under direct State control. Indeed, he described State compulsion as "always a manifestation of desperation." In other words, if the industry does not wish to come under the direct control of the Government it must set its own house in order. "Already it seems almost certain that the solution of our problems depends on the evolution of a new machinery of government of industry, and relations of State government to industry." No doubt the Royal Commission will have something important to say about this, but Dr. Marsden warns the industry, to which he gives full credit-for organisation already achieved, that neither the Commission nor the Government can save it. They can only help the industry to save itself amid the new difficulties of the time.