HERD-TESTING SCHEME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 15

HERD-TESTING SCHEME

DOMINION FEDERATION PLANS FOR REORGANISATION [by telegbaph—OWN correspondent] PALMERSTON NOKTH, Tuesday Requests recently placed before the Executive Commission of Agriculture by the management committee of the Dominion Group Herd-Testing Federation were discussed in committee at the annual meeting of the federation to-day in Palmerston North by Mr. A. H. Cockayne, assistant directorgeneral of the Department of Agriculture. The delegation to the commission asked for statutory powers to prevent breakaways from the federation with the resultant formation of other testing groups, so that all testing would come under the federation, and also that statutory powers should be given to the federation for the protection of its present calf-marking system. At the close of Mr. Cockayne's address motions were carried by the meeting giving the management committee power to bring about a reorganisation with a view to consolidation of all herdtesting in New Zealand and authority also to deal with the other items placed before the commission The annual report of the federation revealed a falling-off in membership. This was attributed to the uncertain outlook in the dairy industry .__Group cows under test numbered 233,570, association cows, 6792. Mr. G. Bell, ""of Oakura. Taranaki. was re-elected president, and with Mr. W. J. Low, Bay of Plenty, was reelected to the management committee.