INDUSTRY OF DENMARK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1928, Page 12

INDUSTRY OF DENMARK.

GOVERNMENT FILMS.

INTENSIVE FARMING OF LAND

The remarkably intensive primary and secondary industrial life of Denmark was illustrated to a. large audience at the Strand Theatre, Auckland, last week, when there was screened a series of films made for the Danish Government and brought to Auckland by the Danish scientific research ship Dana. The films were shown under the patronage of the Hon'. J. B. Donald, on behalf of the Government, and the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce and Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

The series opened with screenings of scenes typical of the country, its cities, and its life, while introducing such matters of liisorical interest as those associated with the time of the Vikings, the birthplace of Hans Andersen, the world’s greatest teller of fairy tales, and remnants of Denmark’s old civilisation, dating back 5000 to 7000 years.

There was a peculiar New Zealand interest attaching to the pictures of the. intensive Danish dairy fanning industry. Sub-titles mentioned that 85 per cent of the wealth of the country*caiile from<the land. Farms were mostly small, and of late years the State had aided subdivision into farmlets of about 17 acres in area. The soil, in many places poor, bad been made wonderfully productive by intensive cultivation, and the plough was freely used. Ninety .per cent of the milk produced was used for hutterm airing, although there was a trend toward extending cheese manufacture. Views of. dairy and dried and condensed milk factories showed the latest in mechanical equipment. The brewing of high-grade beer was illustrated as one of the great national industries. Scenes of the fishing fleets, leading hanks and commercial houses, canals, docks, oil, margarine, and cocoa, factories Imre further witness to the remarkable industry and development of a nation with a population of between 3.000,000 and 4.000,000. The “people’s colleges,” where instruction in agricultural and general education is available to young men and women who seek it voluntarily, testified to further effort to advance the Danes. The operations of the great East Asiatic Company at home and abroad were illustrated,' and there were pictures of life in Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Pig and poultry farming were shown to be powerful allies of dairy farming on the land, Denmark exporting annually about "900,000.000 eggs.