INSPECTION OF DAIRY FARMS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 16

INSPECTION OF DAIRY FARMS

♦ MORE OFFICERS APPOINTED

“WILL TAKE ROLE OF ADVISERS”

MINISTER’S OUTLINE OF NEW BILL

[From Our Parliamentary Kept -ter.l WELLINGTON. July 29. Extensions in the scheme of farmdairy instruction are provided for in the Dairy Industry Amendment Bill, which was introduced in the House of Representatives to-day by Gover-nor-General’s Message. The bill contains only two clauses, and gives the Government power to make regulations providing for farm-dairy instruction and inspection, to improve and maintain the quality of milk and cream supplied for the manufacture of dairy produce. Regulations may also be made imposing levies on persons manufacturing dairy produce in order to defray the cost of instruction and inspection and, if necessary, exempting any person or class of persons from the provision of the bill. Explaining the bill on its introduction, the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, said that additional dairy instructors were being appointed at the request of the whole of the industry, including the Dairy Board. A good many dairy factories already had instructors under what was known as the voluntary scheme, but the industry and the board felt that the system should be made general throughout New Zealand. Accordingly 35 more men were being appointed, bringing the total number to 77. They would not be inspectors, but more in the way of advisers. There was no doubt of the value to the industry of the scheme that had existed up to the present, and it seemed that increasing the number of instructors could only have beneficial results. Many Former Managers “The department always co-operates to the fullest possible extent with the dairy factories,” the Minister said. “As a matter of fact, a great many of the men appointed as instructors have been dairy factory managers. The system has been in operation for years, and the only change proposed by the bill is to introduc:: a block system that will enable dairy farmers throughout New Zealand to benefit. The bill was read a first time.