QUALITY FALLING OFF

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 54, 7 March 1929, Page 6

QUALITY FALLING OFF

PLEA FOR, MORE KNOWLEDGE (By Telegraph.) (Special to "Tho Evening Post") ■ ' AUCKLAND, This Day. At the annual conference of members of the Auckland district of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers, Ml 1.'I?. J. Nathan, of Wellington, who is a member of the association's honorary advisory committee, advocated, in . strong ■ terms greater scientific interest in dairying, stricter attention to details of manufacture, and the sending overseas from time to time of New Zealand .graders to gain first-hand knowledge of the of consuming countries. "Visitors to England are constantly returning to New Zealand to tell you palatable untruths about the marvels of. New Zealand dairy produce. You like to be told that, but our produce is not the best in the world, and "the only man who ever stood up in a public gathering and told you the naked truth.about the decline ia the quality of our produce is Sir Thomas Clement," said Mr. Nathan. In recent years, said Mr. Nathan, there had been a distinct falling off in the quality of New Zealand butter and cheese. He could not refrain from wondering whether Mr. W. M. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, received under a seal of confidence from the Department's London representatives reports other than those published which would indicate the seriousness of the situation. The Dairy Division of New Zealand did not know the exact requirements of our markets across the seas in the United States, Canada 1 liugland, and the Continent. He would' suggest that Mr. Koss, London officer of the Department, be brought back to New Zealand to give addresses on the palate of the British consumer, - aud that a number of our graders be sent to examine the requirements of our overseas markets at first hand system of exchange might nt the.bill, but something must be done so largely dependent was the Dominion upon its dairy produce exports.