“INTERNAL JEALOUSY”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21984, 20 June 1933, Page 11

“INTERNAL JEALOUSY”

DAIRYING DISTRICTS Statements that different farming districts in New Zealand were suspecting one another of being the cause of portion of the dairy produce being of poor quality were made by Mr E. H. Anderson, chairman of directors of the Cambridge Dairy Company, at a meeting of the Taranaki Federation of Dairy Companies at Stratford, when advocating the introduction of farm dairy instruction. “The position is that the Waikato says that Taranaki is making all the bad cheese, and Taranaki says that the Waikato is,” said Mr Anderson. “ I will admit that the Waikato has been making bad cheese, but there is cheese being made much worse.”

Mr J. R. Corrigan interjected that New Zealand cheese was the best in the world, and he could prove it. Mr Anderson said the north was being set against the south. Both Taranaki and Waikato were suspecting each other and he knew that some people had positively rejoiced when the Southland grade went down. Such internal jealousy was not good for the industry. Condemnation of its own produce by New Zealand was strongly deprecated by Mr Corrigan. “ Even before the milk comes from the cow you hear farmers decrying their produce,” he said. He had had concrete information, that agents in England selling New Zealand produce were being shown clippings from New Zealand newspapers and told that the produce must be bad if the producers were saying so.