MR GILRUTH’S RETURN

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1533, 18 July 1901, Page 57

MR GILRUTH’S RETURN

Special to the “Times.” AUCKLAND, July 10. Mr Gilruth, Chief Government Veterinary Officer, who left for Wellington today, “was interviewed before as to the impressions he gathered in England and Scotland.” Mr Gilruth said British farming was still the best in the world, but the farmers were badly in need of someone to tell them what to do. The British Department of Agriculture was onlv a police department for the suppression of 'contagious diseases, and not what we understood by an agricultural department. He strongly advocated the New Zealand principle of the Government providing advisers to help “agriculture. As for the Dairying Department at Home, ours was superior to it. In a lecture delivered in Scotland he reminded his audience that New Zealand butter commanded in London some fourpence a pound more than Scottish butter, but his hearers did not seem to believe him. While in England Mr Gilruth made it his business to inquire into tbe latest methods of sewage disposal by filtration and bacteriological means, and’into the general methods in use for safeguarding the public health. He brings back numerous reports and plans on these subjects-for the use of the New Zealand Department of Health.