DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 7

DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

a;w\'ua,, iii-;i.-oj;'.r. fAYOiiAIJIj; AtJUHJ.Yf OV Y7:\!;'-> WORK. The anmiai .rcort of (In. >Ti*tioiml Dairy Association of Mow Zealand for the twelve months ended April :lo emit'lins a very favcrahie account .„/ t year ,3 work. It s ],ov,- s that the pro ami l(j.,> uctwmt i s now in en,lit I!''' extent of £270!) 15s 7(1, an in,-,,;, or ±,H)S ,s on the .previous y.. lr Tl stock in hand i s y> S3 j„ value tlitm u--i:i and! is m good order and saleable. <;„», a float at tilif end of April are also lethan formerly. Indent orders for ti coming .-ea--o.n in- manv line- h-u greatly increased, and th'i-. part cf 11 husiness is developing A.ch v ,,, itorme insurance for the year is a'koi; £IOO,OOO below the amount of last vc-i 'Wile membership at the end of -th iinanem] year was 130, a* aijainst l.'i tor the preceding year. This is a n cord for the association. The futur ■of the industry, so far in the Doiniuio is Concerned, is assured, judged bv th growth of yearly applications fur th registration of new factories. IJurin the year 32 applications have bee granted, as against 35 last year. Notwithstanding difficulties in rc«ar< to weather condition 1 * and. the bi"l values ruling fo v stock and wool t!h. industry throu.glhio.iit the Dominion I making steady progress. T«e butter' exported to all countries for the war has increased by 0.450 pei cent,, and cheese toy 12.127 per cent Whilst nearly all the North Tstom ports show increases in cheese, the a" gregaite (quantity from -the ■South! Island ports is not equal .to that of lssl year. The -report comments that eve dfently the industry is taking a firmer ■hold of the northern portion of .the Dominion..

The standard of quality is generally being maintained. Probably t'he best tribute paid to the excellence of New Zealand (butter is seen in the remarks made bv Mr. H. 11. Osborne, manager of the Western District Factories' Cooperative Produce Company, of Melbourne, contained in his report on in.Vo9tiga,tfons in the United! Kingdom regarding .the marketing, lhandling.' distribution, «nd quality -of! Australian butter. He savs: "New Zealand a fiords the .most striking example of what can be accomplished toy a thoroughly organ ised system of education and super vision. New Zealand hatter is un dou'bted'ly of better nnd more uniform quality than Australian. It has a much higher- reputation on the world's ■mankftts."

With regard to cheese, the. quality for tfcfe -past season was ia decided advance on that of the former.

As to the prices (realised for New Zealand dairy produce in 'the United Kingdom from the Uhippers' point of view the results have been profoundly disappointing. The cheese in(!iii>|try ( l:ia» n'ow developed to such dimensions—exceeding that of butiter—that it has outgrown- the past and present system i,f handling, and imcthods.