DAIRY REGULATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 5

DAIRY REGULATIONS.

AMENDMENTS LIKELY. There is very .good reason for believing that, as a result of tho antagonism of farmers toward the . new dairy regulations, the Government proposals will he considerably modified. It is stated on very i good authority that the obnoxious clause referring to the construction of-concrete races will be reduced to-a much less drastic form, and even necessary .alterations to buildings' and cowyards will be allowed to i be done with cluo regard to the financial position of the farmers concerned: It is believed also that the Government dairy supervision generally; will be more in the nature of instruction than inspection. . .. ... . .j:,

Messrs.. W. Fuge (Featherston) and "W. Fisher (Carterton),'" who gave, important evidence, before the. Parliamentary Committee on the dairy, regulations on Tuesday, have returned to'Wairarapa. :'" ,<•" 1 An Indignation Meeting, ■' The issue of the dairy regulations (says our Taranaki correspondent) has.'caused .considerable concern amongst dairy farmers, of Taranaki, and an indignation meeting!. }vas held oil' Tuesday at Okato) at which there was'some pretty plain'speaking. The regulations were read, and whilst some of ,them moved "the 1 meeting to.' laughter, there : tfas grave dissatisfaction expressed 'concerning those which seemed-to aim at'^placing'tho stock inspectors-and other inspectors, competent or in full charge and authority <.over- farmers . and their families. Mr. 'J. Carey was the principal speaker, and he .said ■ that if' the. balance-sheets, grading notes, arid sale"reports>o7 the factories were considered it would be found that' New .Zealand butter, without absurd- legislation/ was competing •successfully 'with ' the produce'''of other' countries. 'If -these ' were insisted oil,' the. dairy ■ industry would collapse, and there would be an-end of prosperity. '.- He had been told the.Se regulations; were an outcome of • representii;tiojis of the National Dairy - : Mr.' A. Corbett wanted to know where' the Minister for Lands found the . filthy source's of supply* referred ,to by him in the- House, where his. whole.speech.was, the speaker considered, an insult, to the farming community', and' reflected /unfavourably upon the competence -of the Minister.,. ,'; 'Mr. Blwin pointed out that, though' thf Government''claimed to have done so mucl) for dairying,' what real results / had been were?dseoto - , tlre'.'commoricsense of the"farmers,;-who,"without regulation or'in; 'spection,:!for -their owii sakes and the bene; fit of their pockets, were, as means improving .their premises . and herds. ;'He had travelled a good dealamong the farmers of Taranaki, arid.was. convinced there were'none so depraved asi.to require regulations as'to washing their persons or 1 their' shirts, or so unenlightened. as: not to do all that' was necessary.'to deliver their milk in a satisfactory condition at the factories.

; A, scries .'of . resolutions, was stigmatising- the regulations 'as ."ridiculous' and unnecessary," and the remarks of the'Minr ister- as .an- insult to the farmers, and averring that the proposed supervision and inter : ference will ruin the industry , and .produce poverty - and' distress instead of : fostering a thriving-■ yeomanry. j, -. , ir.. ... . . ,