THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 562, 27 November 1915, Page 13

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

NEW ZEALAND'S PRODUCTION. Press Association. INVERCARGILL, November 26. At Bluff to-day, Sir Joseph Ward opened a new cool dairy store, the most up-to-date in the Dominion, which has a capacity of 25,000 crates or 50,000 cheese. There was a representative gathering of members of the South Island Dairy Association and directors of Southland dairy factories. Six thousand crates of cheese were in store at the time. Mr A F. Sawke, chairman of the Bluff Harbour Board, called upon Sir Joseph -Ward to open the store formally. Sir Joseph dealt with the rapid development of the dairying industry, and said the time was close at hand when dairy produce would be the

second in importance in point of value of the Dominion's exports. Commenting on the action of the Imperial Government through the New Zealand Government requisitioning meat exports and a third of the cheese exports, he said that from March 3 to November 22 there had been shipped in round numbers 354,000 quarters of beef, 2,068,000 carcases of mutton, and 2,999,000 carcases of lamb. Of this 221,000 quarters of beef, 1,471,000 carcases of mutton, and 2,174,000 carcases of lamb already had arrived at their destination, the value being nearly £6,000,000. The fact that so much of the Dominion's produce had been requisitioned and exported with extraordinarily little friction showed how effective was the co-operation between the producers and the * Government. He believed that this spirit of co-operation among all classes throughout the Empire would i enable the Imperial Government to! bring victory to British arms. j