CONTROL OF DAIRYING

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 7

CONTROL OF DAIRYING

COMMISSION’S REPORT EFFECT UPON THE INDUSTRY. OPINION ON “DICTATORSHIP.” (To the Editor.) Sir,—The reception of the report of the Dairy Commission by the farming community of New Zealand, through its various organisations, and the whole tenor of its attitude towards the industry of recent years, remind me of a story of Rudyard Kipling in the Jungle Book. The Jungle Book deals with the upbringing of Mowkli, the wolf-child, Baloo, the Brown Bear and Bagheera, the Black Panther. Mowgli is led away with much talk by the Bandar-log, the mon-key-folk, and Baloo’s pronouncement upon the Bandar-log is very apt. “They have no speech of their own, but use the stolen words which they overhear when they listen, and peep, and wait up above in the branches. They are without leaders. They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is forgotten.” They were always just going to have a leader and laws and customs of their own but they never did because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and so they compromised things by making up a saying: “What the bandar-log think now the jungle will think later, and that comforted them a great deal.” The task of a so-called leader of the farmers must .be hopeless because fresh ideas are constantly being caught at and some new scheme hailed as a panacea. How many times has Mr. Polson been let down because the farmers he represents have suddenly switched from one viewpoint to another. The proposed “dictatorship” is fully justified, because the dairy industry has shown very clearly that, owing to wheels within wheels, and sheer inability, it could never control itself and reach any definite aim.—l am, etc., UNITY. Manaia, Nov. . 6. WHO BUYS OUR PRODUCE? (To the Editor.) Sir,—To decide a wager would you kindly inform me how much the United States, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Slovakia and Australia have bought from Taranaki? As I buy only British goods I have had articles from all these countries “rung in” on me.—l am, etc., COASTAL FARMER. Pungarehu, Nov. 6. [There are no statistics available showing exports from Taranaki. The latest Year Book gives the following figures for the year 1932 in regard to the destination of exports from the Dominion:— Australia, £1,444,860; Germany, £289,917; Sweden, £20,925; Japan, £236,799; United States, £940,015. —Ed.l