N.Z. DAIRY FARMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 November 1928, Page 7

N.Z. DAIRY FARMS

ENGLISH EXPERT’S OPINION. ■ Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.) (Received, November 13, 1 p.m.) LONDON, November 12. Sir John Russell, agricultural expert, gave a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel. The guests included Sir James Paw. Sir John Russell, describing his recent tour, declared that New Zealand’s natural conditions were unexcelled for dairying. Two matters to which attention should be directed are, firstly, a reduction in the price of land, and secondly, an improvement in the productivity of individual cows. New Zealand butter, because the standard was very strictly .maintained, was most popular in Britain. A recent conference of British milk suppliers called to consider over-production, rejected a proposal to establish a butter factory because “everybody prefers New Zealand butter.” The selling organisation returned to the New Zealand farmer seventy-five to eighty per cent.' of the price paid in England. The English dairy farmer received fifty per cent, of the price of his milk, ten miles from the farm. New Zealand’s experimental farms were doing valuable work and should receive every assistance from the Government.”