DRIED MILK INDUSTRY

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 271, 18 November 1919, Page 7

DRIED MILK INDUSTRY

"■■ HATANGI FACTORY OPENED

SPEECH BY MR MASSEY

The new glaxo factory at Malar.;;!, claimed to "be the largest in the ■world, ; was officially opened by the Prime Minister, on .Wednesday last. Mr Massey said he had seen a good deal of dried milk on the other side of the world, and he predicted that in the future milkmen woul not deIher milk at the door, but the solid article would be purchased at t-e grocer's. The output of dried miik an New Zealand, when the industry ■was started in 1916, was 542 tons. next season it was 2950 tons, last season* 3225 tons, and one did not need to be a prophet to say that this amount would be exceeded this season. The latest American figures ■wtre 11,440 tons, so that the output here compared very favorably with America. c Continuing. Mr Massey said there v as one drawback to the dried milk and casein industry, and he hoped the settlers would remember they had a duty to tlie country. It was right enough getting the best prices for -fcheir products, but they could not prosper if the stock was not provided, and he urged them to find some substitute for milk to feed calves.-

The Prime Minister quoted figures shoeing that since 1911 there had fcoen an increase of over 1,000.000 head of cattle and nearly 2,000,000 sheep, and said this was proof of the ■oxtraorflinary productiveness of New Zealand. ' They were dependent for their prosperity upon their exports. They_ Bad taken up great liabilities, but it would not have been possible to do so if it had not been for the fact that tlhe industry of the people had improved. However, they wanted >more land cultivated and more stock to make the land produce more.