MILK INDUSTRY IN N.Z.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27471, 4 October 1954, Page 8

MILK INDUSTRY IN N.Z.

CEYLONESE DOCTOR’S VIEWS The view that the milk organisation in New Zealand is equal to, if not better than that in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, was made by Dr. D. W. Amarasinghe. chief municipal veterinary surgeon of Colombo, Ceylon, who arrived in Christchurch from Wellington last week. Dr Amarasinghe said" Ceylon was trying to improve its milk supply, and he thought that the organisation there might be modelled on New Zealand’s. Dr Amarasinghe is at present making a study of milk production treatment and distribution in New Zealand on a Colombo Plan grant. He will be shown the milk set-up in Christchurch during his visit. Most of the hill land in Ceylon was taken up with tea and rubber plantations, Dr. Amarasinghe said. “You have, your dairying industry very well organised, and you have to as it is one of your main industries.” He said he had been very impressed with a North Island farm where two persons milked 75 cows and managed 150 acres. Fifteen persons would be doing the same thing in Ceylon, he said. Labour was plentiful in Ceylon, however, but New Zealand could not get labour and so introduced machinery. He said he did not know if Ceylon would mechanise its farms to the same extent as New Zealand’s.