The Dairy Industry.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 3, 10 July 1894, Page 4

The Dairy Industry.

Mr Henry Reynolds, of the firm of Messrs Reynolds and Co. (Limited), has returned to Auckland after a sixweeks' tour of the colony, during which he visited most of the leading butter and cheese factories in New Zealand. All of. those spoken to have agreed to join and form a dairy association for both the North and South Islands, with a secretary at Wellington, whence fortnightly shipments of produce are to be regularly made, "lam fully satisfied," says Mr Reynolds, " that we shall have all the help we ask for from the Government at the Wellington Agricultural Conference, and the Dairy Conference at Duuedin. : In connection with insulated trucks and cold storage., grading, &c.,' an amendment to the Dairy Bill is now being printed to effect these, and a grant is king provided for them. If the grant is passed by Par-, liamcnt, and, seeing the dairy industry is now the backbone of the colony, we do not expect anyone to vote against it. We can rely on what we want being carried out. The secretary for agrictulture bad this matter in hand before my ariival in the colony, but as conferences were to be held in Wellington and Dunedin, it was held back to see whether we should all move in the same direction. As I have told you, we were all in accord, and if the suggestion be but carried out as we confidently expect, next season will see a marked improvement in the quality of New Zealand butter when landed in London, and so obviate the great complaints that have beenmade regarding the quality of the produce lately exported. lam more than ever satisfied that the dairy industry is going to be one of great importance to the colony, and that within a very short time it will be on a much better footing. I am pretty well sure the Government will do all that lies in their power to further it, as dairying is the best means of making a living out of the laud, on which the Government are so anxious to settle the people." "ft*