DAIRYING IN AUSTRALIA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 2

DAIRYING IN AUSTRALIA

CO-ORDINATION SCHEME 'Communication: has boon sent to the Govcrnmont of Now South Wales by the Federal Minister for Commerce, Br. Earlc Page, with a view to bringing a'bout a discussion early in the New Year by the recently-established Agricultural Council on co-ordinating the work of the various organisations that, deal with the dairying industry. A number of bodies concern themselves with, the industry, with consequent overlapping. The Dairy Produce Export Control-Board is a" statutory body. Voluntary 'bodies established by the industry include the Stabilisation Committee, which is concerned with the fixing of a home consumption price for. butter: the 'Australian Dairying Council, which at present is devoting itself largely to problems of pasture improvement; dairymen's associations, which have been set up in several of the States, and the Primary Producers' Association, which study the interests of dairymen. Tho objective of all these bodies is the improvement' of the position of the dairying industry, and it is felt that this objectiv6, could be achieved far morn satisfactorily with only one .organisation representing all sections of the industry.,.

The Australian Agricultural Council was set up as the outcome of the conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers h,eld at Canberra early last month, and itfl ; purpose is to establish «n organisation which Will provide a basis for continuous consultation among Australian Governments on aspects of primary production. Dairyin" will be only one of the subjects to°bo discussed at its next meeting in tho early 'part of the NeW Year.