DAIRY PRODUCE WANTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17174, 26 October 1926, Page 12

DAIRY PRODUCE WANTED

BRITISH MARKETS'. POINTS FOR UNION AND KENYA. LONDON, September 6. Tlie Imperial Economic Committee’s report on marketing and preparing for market foodstuffs produced within' the Empire forms the subject of a special article by the Hon. W. G. A. OrmsbyGoro (Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies) in the Times. Mr. OrmsbyGore draws attention to the emphasis that is laid on the need for a greater regularity of the supply of dairy produce from the Dominions throughout the year. This, lie points out, is shown to involve the extension wherever possible, of winter feeding, the carefully planned use of cold storage facilities at home and overseas and a centralised shipping programme under the auspices of repreentative producers’ organisations. SMALL FARMERS’ SCOPE, “Tho extension of dairying in New Zealand, South Africa, and even East Africa,” continues Mr. Ormsby-Gore, ‘‘has, of course, an all-important bearing on the question of oversea settlement. Dairy production on a co-opera-tive basis provides a specially suitable field for the closer settlement of migrants from the Home Country. It provides scope for the small farmer working by intensive methods of production and offers him opportunities for success from comparatively small beginnings.'’ PEDIGREE BULLS.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore refers to the great progress in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and continues: ‘‘ln South Africa and Kenya there is a wide scope for tho development, of what is for them a- comparatively new industry. For Africa one of the most important points is the importation of pedigree bulls from Great Britain to improve the local dairy herds.”

TO BEAT THE FOREIGNER The committee draws attention to the fact tliat foreign countries, including some which have relatively low wages and standards of living, are attempting to regain their pre-war position in the British market, and the Times, in a. leading article, draws attention to this phase of the report. “There seems no escape,” it. says, “from the conclusion reached by the Committee that if foreign competition is to be met successfully without- lowering his standard of living, the producer in the Empire must discover and adopt more efficient and cheaper methods of production.”