The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17, 1924. NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3379, 17 December 1924, Page 4

The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17, 1924. NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

SCIENCE IN DAIRYING

The welcome extended to our new Go-vernor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, ait Wellington last Saturday, will be cordially echoed throughout the Dominion. He is the second of his line to represent his Majesty in New Zea’and, being the son of a. former Governor, and Lady Fergusson is the daughter of a former Governor- —the Earl of Glasgow. Sir Charles has had a very distinguished military career, and he comes to us not as a stranger 1 but as one returning after many years. The personal link between their Excellencies and this country had thus its origin in the past, arid we may take it that their interest in New Zealand, by reason of former associations, has always been maintained. The circumstance that portion of the New Zealand forces were under General Fergusson’s command on the. Western Front during the war constitutes another hoiul of sympathy between himself and the people with whom his career is now to li. identified. As lie moves, .about the dominion his Excellency will have the opportunity of marking the changes ,and the progress which, the years have brought. He and Lady Fergusson 1 rave a, claim upon t? e goodwill and friendship of New Zealanders not possessed by their predecessors and the welcome they received in Wellington was all tlhe warmer in consequence.

Dairy farmers are certainly realising that more attention should be given to scientific research in their industry, and it is hoped that the visit of Mr Sorensen, the Danish dairy expert, will av aken further interest. lii an- interview which was recently given the Taranaki Herald. Mr Sorensen described how Denmark has met the wants felt in this Dominion. There appear to be three separate lines of development. The first consists of schools where farmers and students can be trained in sciences bearing on agriculture and dairying and. if they please, continue special degree courses which will fit them to become dairy experts and workers in the laboratories. Next- comes, the training of factory managers. After working for a few years in the factories the future managers are given four years’ hard training and are then considered fit to take charge of factories. Discussing this the Herald says: Four years may seem a long period of training to us, but it lias been adopted after trying a; course lasting nine months, which was apparently not sufficient. In our rough and ready system managers have to learn how to make good butter and cheese by making blunders and finding out how to- correct them; in Denmark they learn before being allowed to practise on a large scale. The final institution in Denmark is a State expel imental factory where researches of all kinds, both in the use of new appliances and in the laboratory are carried out. We must admit that the Danes have tackled the problems which we are still discussing, and a 1 ! “ parently with considerable success. It does not. follow that their methods would he exactly suited to this Dominion, hut we certainly need some equivalent means of producing the results they aim at.