PIG-RECORDING SERVICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 4

PIG-RECORDING SERVICE

ANSWER TO CRITICISM NATIONAL SCHEME /. . V . ' ‘ . .j.tPer Press Association.).. . PALMERSTON N., this day. "Mr. Caro does not really understand the position;” declared Mr.- J. A. Russell, the. president of the New Zealand Pig Breeders’ Association, last evening, when the Hamilton message reporting the remarks of Mr. H. D. Caro, president Of the Waikato Pig Recording and Research Association, .who criticised the Government plan for the inauguration of a national pig-Tecording scheme, was referred to him for comment. “What Tias been. explained by the Minister is just the first step," continued Mr. Russell, “but a national investigational and educational scheme has yet to be fully developed. If Mr._Ca.ro would devote a little time to assisting us to get a levy of 2d per pig on all pigs killed for local consumption and export, so that sufficient funds could be raised to put a 'big scheme in operation, it would be more welcome than destructive criticism.

“Every pig-breeder in New Zealand has been crying for recording, but tne recording clubs pan only cater fur a very limited number of breeders, Wnth the national scheme which the Government has agreed to adopt, however, every breeder in the Dominion will have an opportunity of having his stock recorded. This is not a parochial movement, and we are' not going to sit down and seo recording alone introduced.’ "There is a crying need for more investigation into disea’ses and management.”

, Mr. Russell explained that the executive of the New Zealand Pig Breeders’ Association had finalised the scheme with the Minister!