IRISH BUTTER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3898, 27 November 1928, Page 19

IRISH BUTTER.

QUESTION OF CONTROL. REMEMBER NEW ZEALAND. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, October 16. A correspondent, writing to the Grocer, holds up New Zealand’s dairy control experiment as a terrible warning to Ireland. “Many who are interested in the welfare of the Irish creameries,” he says, “ view with considerable misgiving the efforts that are being made to induce the Minister of Agriculture to introduce legislation for the purpose of compelling the whole of the creameries to market their butter through the I.A.C. “ It would be well that those on whose judgment the final decision rests should remember the failure of the New Zealand control scheme, and take note that the opening of the present season sees the last vestige of the irksome regulations swept away. There are to be no more inspections of importers’ books, no weekly returns of sales; and export licenses are no longer required. “The New. Zealand creameries liave discovered, in the bitter school of experience, that compulsion is inimical to the welfare of their industry. What it has cost them to acquire this knowledge it is doubtful if even they’ themselves could determine accurately.”