THE DAIRY REGULATIONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 February 1908, Page 2

THE DAIRY REGULATIONS.

A DEPUTATION TO THE MINISTEE. - ~ . ' '■ > ■ fOHITED PaES3 ASSOCIAMOHJ WELLINGTON, Saturday. A deputation from the Wellington Dairy Farmers' Union of Employers waited on the Minister of Agriculture to-day in regard" to the dairy regulations Gazetted under the Dairy Industry Act on January 10, 1901. Mr MoCurdy, for the Union represented that the farmers had been kept waiting for a long time after they had applied for registration of dairy premises; that in cases before the Court Inspectors should not be vested with such wide powers; that Magistrates should have the usual power of discriminating; that great annoyance had been caused by one Inspector approving a course that was condemned by another; that the time for cleaning milking sheds should be extended to four hours after regular milking time; that the Union should be asked to arbitrate in certain cases or at all events that it should be consulted; and that better provision should be made for keeping milk vans on the railway clean. The Minister replied that the officers of the Department would give careful consideration to the representations made. The. desire of the Department was to improve the- conditions of the industry, and he' was satisfied that the Union was similarly actuated. The Inspectors were all competent men, and their qualifications had been carefully looked into. The new reflations to bo. issued would be framed with the idea; not of making them punitive. . but educative and at the end of the year they could be reviewed. He. aid-not suppose that they could reach a stage of absolute satisfaction at the first attempt; but they could see where the shoe pinched at the end of the year.