UNDULY CRITICISED

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 11 (Supplement)

UNDULY CRITICISED

. DEPARTMENTAL OFFICERS. DEFENCE BY MR. DYNES FULTON. A tribute to the services to the cause of herd testing given by Dr. C. J. Reakes, Director-General of Agriculture, and Mr. W. M. Singleton, director of the dairy division, was paid by Mr. Dynes Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Herd Testing Association, at Hamilton, on Monday. These gentlemen, said Mr. Fulton, had been untiring in their efforts to render the group herd testing movement assistance. In any representations made to the Government for help, their support had been 100 per cert. Mr. Fulton said he had no time for the carping Critics who were ready on all occasions to blame Government officers for failure to do things. More often than not the fault lay not with the officers themselves, but with the Government, which failed to give' its sanction. The officers themselves often made recommendations of which Cabinet did not approve, but they often had to shoulder the responsibility in .the public mind. “After a long and varied experience of farming, I feel that departmental heads are often unduly criticised,” added Mr. Fulton. .