CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1928, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

JERSEY MATTERS. (To the Editor.) Sir,-—Your correspondent, "Fiftyfifty,” is just a little hard to follow in his letter in to-day’s issue of the News, wherein he asks if it is fair that the North Taranaki Jersey breeders should try to place tw. of their number on the council of the New Zealand Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Association, an election for two Taranaki seats being now in progress. I have received my voting paper, and it shows that of the three gentlemen nominated two reside in New Plymouth and one at Oakura. Ho - ever, the place of residence does not matter much. The thing of importance is that we shall elect the best possible men to the council. We are a great organisation, raising and spending, upwards of £ll,OOO annually. It is a business undertaking, and it requires the attention of business men, and when I say business men I do not wish to be understood as not classifying farmers as business men, because they are business men engaged in the most precarious and most important business we have in this country. When I use the term “business men” I include the men who are engaged in the business of breeding and developing Jersey cattle, end who are engaged in developing this great industry. It is important that we should have enthusiastic, willing men on this board who have vision, who have experience, who have knowledge, and who have the right spirit to. carry on this work. Whether they live in Hawera, Midhirst, New Plymouth or elsewhere matters not, but what does matter is that they shall be the best that Taranaki can select, for they represent the province and not the locality in which they live. —I am, etc., JERSEY BREEDER.