NEW ZEALAND LEADS SIR JOHN RUSSELL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND LEADS

SIR JOHN RUSSELL

DAIRYING CONDITIONS SIR JOHN RUSSELL’S VIEW CAustralian and N.Z. Press Associr -' (United Service) Reed. Noon. LONDON, Monday. Sir John Russell, the agricultural expert, gave a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel. The guests included Sir James Parr. Sir John, describing his recent tour, declared that New Zealand’s natural

conditions are unexcelled Two matters to which attention should be directed are, firstly, reduction in the price of land, and secondly, improvement in the productivity of individual cows. New Zealand butter, because the standard was very strictly maintained, was the most popular in Britain. A recent conference of British milk suppliers, called to consider over-produc-tion, rejected a proposal to establish a butter factory, because “everybody prefers New Zealand butter.” The selling organisation returned to the New Zealand farmer 75 or 80 per cent, of the price paid in England. The English dairy farmer received 50 per cent, of the price of his milk ten miles from the farm. New Zealand’s experimental farms were doing valuable work, and should receive every assistance from the Government.