DAIRYING POLICY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 5 June 1919, Page 5

DAIRYING POLICY

MEETING OF THE SOUTH ISLANDASSOCIATION. Cut telegraph—press association.) DUNEDIN June 4. At the annual meeting of the South Island ■ Dairy Association the following directors were elected: Messrs. T. Buckingham (Dnjnimond), Ai-nott (Wyndham), and Middleton (Waimahaka). The question of forming a mutual insurance company was considered, and a committee was set up to report to the ■executive meeting. The meeting decided to recommend to dairy factories to promote the formation of herd-testing associations, also that A. and P. Associations in the South Island be strongly urged to told bull fairs at a suitable month each year, and that 50 per cent, of the Government stud bulls be distributed for sale at these fairs. The following motion was carried: That the outlook in the near future re shipping freights for all farm produce is a serious menace to the prosperity of New Zealand, and it is imperative thatall dairy and meat export companies combine for common defence, and support a fair rate of freight, and that the executive move in this direction at; once.