DOMINION PRODUCTS AT HOME
A SYSTEM OP CONTROL,
(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 11. Tho Hon. R. M'Nab, Minister of Lands, leaves to-morrow afternoon for Palmeiyfou North to attend the annual dinner of the Farmers' Union. Next day the lion, gentleman proceeds'to Dannevirke, where he will deal with a number of departmental matters. Ho returns to Wellington on Saturday night. Interviewed by a Post representative to-day the Minister of Agriculture said: "Mr C. .1. Reakes, assistant ohief veterinarian, and Mr D. Cuddie, dairy commissioner, are returning to Now Zealand. They recently (proceeded to London undor instructions from tho Government, to initiate a system of control of tho meat supply on tho one hand, and dairy produce on the other, with the view of ascertaining the effect produced by transit on the condition of the moat from a veterinary point of view, and on the dairy produce from the gradcr'G point of view, after their long journey Home, ■tr Roakes will leave in 'large a veterinary surgeon, who formerly was on the stall' in Now Zealand, and probably later on a grader from the Dominion will visit London to take up tho work inaugurated by Mr Cuddie. As a lot of the work and most of the research are of a highly technical nature, they have not been made the subjects of reports by Messrs Reakes and Cuddie, but these officers will furnish the Government with all the information they possess on their return to the Dominion. The object souyhfc to lxs accomplished is to ascertain the effect- of the work dene for agricultural produce in New Zealand- at the end of the long sea voyage., and with a knowledge of the facts to modify, alter, or extend the work already done in the case of meat and dairy produce."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14211, 12 May 1908, Page 6
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