VETERINARY SCHEME

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17417, 15 November 1930, Page 4

VETERINARY SCHEME

IS TIME OPPORTUNE ? NO FARMERS’ UNION ACTION From present indications, no scheme of veterinary service for dairy farmers will operate in Gisborne this season. At last month’s meeting, the Poverty Bay sub-provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union decided to refer 3a circular suggesting such a .scheme to the dairy factories of the district.

A letter from the Okitu Co-opera-tive Dairy Co., Ltd., read at to-day’s meeting of the union, stated: “My directors have instructed me to reply to the effect that they consider the suggestion a good one, providing some suitable manner of operating could be arranged. It would bo a difficult matter to give any opinion as to tho manner in which any such proposition would bo taken up by dairy farmers, and they consider that probably the only method by which this could be found out would be for your union to formulate definite ideas and call a general meeting of dairy farmers in the district.”

The secretary, Mr. C. Blackburn, reported ’ that the seeretaiy of the Kia Ora Co., Mr. J. H. Sunderland, did not think at present that the suppliers would agree to such a scheme, which, however, should be a success when times were better.

Mr. R. 11. Wickstecd suggested that the dairy farmers were now more educated, and may not require a veterinary scheme so much now as in tho past. Mr. H. B. Bull: I don’t know. There are so many new diseases coming along, and they hardly know where they arc. It was suggested that tho matter was more* for dairy companies than for the union, and it was decided to take no further action.