OPTIMISTIC NOTE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 August 1924, Page 10

OPTIMISTIC NOTE.

FUTURE OF DAIRY INDUSTRY. CONTINUED PROGRESS EXPECTED. AUCKLAND, Aug. 27. An optimistic note was struck by Mr, \\. Goodfellow, managing director of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, when giving a ‘survey of uorld markets in relation to dairy proCe ’ • coulse °f an. address at the annual dinner of committeemen of the company. . As he looked hack over lo years, during which he had been associated with the dairying industry in the Waikato, Mr. Goodfellow said he marvelled at the wonderful changes that had taken place and the progress made. Fifteen years ago there were practically no milking machines; there were few motor-cars, no motor-lorries, and only bad roads. There was no such thing as home separation, and supjpheis had to cart their milk to creameries, where it was separated. The industry had progressed and would continue to progress. The next 15 years would see as much progress as the last lo years. There would be better roads: farms would be smaller; there would he fewer mortgages and more stock; the ° . per cow would be greater. The industry had passed through one of the severest slumns the country had ever experienced, but looking at things quite impartially he was convinced that the future would show improvement, ihe prosperity of the dairy industry impended in a large measure upon the wi mng x> P -? W ? r of thfi British public. ►»» hen British people had money they sper l t . lt j an 4 ra fo of consumption of dairy produce went up accordino-ly. Authorities had stated that 1926 w<Tu‘ld be the British boom trade year. By that time Germany would be able to trade on a gold basis, and cofisiderable usmess would be done between Britam and Germany in manufactured goods. Germany would prove a bi°outlet for butter, casein, and dried milk powder, and this factor made him more optimistic than for some time psst,

After reviewing the prosnects of the dairying industry in various countries, Mr. Goodfellow said he did not antician y„ ex P ansion in the next two .veais. Siberia was not a menace and dairying was not profitable enough to encourage farmers in North America or In both New Zealand and Australia the output showed a decline He went on to refer to the drift to the towns, and said that the only remedy Uas Set back to the 1914'basis as regarded exchange values of produce goods and service.