DISSATISFIED

Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 July 1930, Page 11

DISSATISFIED

COOPERATION IN DAIRYING

FEDERATION AND DIVISION MR SINGLETON’S COMMENTS RESENTED. “It is time we found out "'here we are in the dairy industry, said Mi J. R Corrigan at to-day’s meeting ol the Taranaki Dairy Federation. All m u-me present- at the Harm ton conference must have been v f ls ‘ apl *! in the reports- we got there, oil the quality of cheese As one of the P™' nintcrs of the federation, 1 felt it necessary to have something that would o-ive us "the information wo required, and we taxed ourselves to pay for a scientist to give us the information that, we could not obtain anywhere else. “We have practically no co-ordina-tion with the Department of tu-ro and the Dairy Division, but sue looked upon as more or less outcasts, and apparently the Dairy Division lias no confidence in the federation, it was with the intention of helping to solve the industry’s problems that the federation was formed, and I was disgusted to think that when 1 expected to hear an address from Mr Singleton at Hamilton on the quality ol cheese that he confined his remarks mainly to Mr Veale’s report ancl a severe criticism ol “Mr Yeale compiled! his report at the federation’s instruction ancl wo went through it in detail before giving it out for publication, and realised the necessity to dlo so because wo were dissatisfied with the industry at the moment. Air Singleton took the report as an attack on the Dairy Division, but that was not the intention of the federation; far from it. Me had to listen to the head of the Dairy Division wrangling away at the federation. Ho did not have a good word for it, for its scientist, or, for that matter, for Taranaki. Air Singleton led the conference to believe that Taranaki was the transgressor in the cheese industry. “It is time for us to take stock and consider w.hat we are going to diot The federation has endeavouried to -assist the industry in every way passible, yet the head of the Dairy Division makes, a statement that the federation has done, nothing and that lie has had more trouble with-'South Taranaki —he mentioned South Taranaki on several! occasions. Mr. Singleton attacked the report and 1 he slanged the federation. It was necessary to have the federation when it was formed' and it is very necessary no-w. even though; the Dairy Division may still regard it as a slur on them. . “I think the federation lias done more to help solve the problems of the industry than anyone else, and I also think that it is time to try and get some co-ordination of interest- both oil the scientific and manufacturing side of the! industry, hut under the existing circumstances we arc getting nowhere.” Air. Corrigan then moved: “That this federation asks the Alinister ot Agriculture to sot- up a committee, selected from the dairy industry and including a factory manager, to investigate the following questions: “(F) How a system can be brought about whereby better co-ordination will exist between the Dairy Division and the scientific organisations existing in this Dominion. “(2) 'Whether the Dairy Division, through its instructors, is imparting the best knowledge if. possesses to the dairv factories of the Dominion.

“(3) AY-h ether o-ur grading system in regard to cheese could not be vei\ materiallv improved. “(4.) The. effect on cheese quality ol the Arbitration Court award. “(5) "Whether on the score of economy. seeing that Massey College has established a scientific department, AYallacevillc laboratory has outlived its usefulness and should lie dispensed with.” “Mr Singleton left the impression on the conference that he and his assistants knew the last word in cheese manufacture and that our scientist knew nothing; if wliat he said was correct, why isn’t the industry given that formation?” added ATr Corrigan. The speaker concluded Ids remarks amidst applause. “M T as Afr Singleton invited to attend this meeting?” asked a delegate.

The chairman: No. ATr Corrigan: I wish he had been here.

Air J. Cocker (Eltlmm) seconded the resolutions, and said that they could do no harm, and might result in a tremendous benefit. He had an opinion that the Dairy Division was not a leader, but was a very good follower. -Air. .T. lAfarchan't (Cardiff) S'upportAlr. Corrigan ’s views, and said 'that the Division’s policy had apparently been to) gloss over its own faults. Ho thought that the resolutions would! not only give Mr. Singleton some hours of reading, as had the Vealc report, but nisei some hours of thinking. “If we eou'kl get- more assistance from the Department instead) of the hostility that Mr. Singleton 1 has shown us, ive might do much more t\> improve the industry,” he said.

“It is a -great, pity tlia-t Air Singleton was not- here to defend himself,” considered a; delegate. “There is no- slur on Air Singjietan,’ said Al-r Corrigan. ‘What I proposed was in effect- to ask the Minister of Agriculture to form a committee to study the problems .ol the industry.” “I do think it regrettable that Air singlet,mi did take the, action -lie did. at Hamilton' in criticiisiug the federation and the scientist: said; the, eh airman (Mr T A AVinks). “However, Air Yeale ’looked after himself and very wsiblv be could do the same again. There was no need for him to single out either the, federation or. Air A T eaHe. The resolution « were, carried, unanimously. Conies of them are to he sent bo all AFs.R. in Taranaki.