DAIRY REGULATIONS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13670, 8 April 1908, Page 5

DAIRY REGULATIONS.

A MINISTER'S PROMISE. Per Presto Association. DUNEDIN, April 7. The Hon. RT. McNab arrived here by the second express to-night ; In replying to a deputation of dairymen y the Minister gave a distinct promise that the regulations insisting s on substantial improvements in regard to dairies ! and byres would not be enforced until there was statutory authority for compelling the landlord to bear his portion of the cost.. It was not mtended^tp; ask that • byr^s • Should be^jompletels /concreted, but there was* 'i, necessity for having some form of paving which would be impervious to water. Power [would* be given lor "ap"pealTro"m a decision of an inspector to the Chief Inspector of Stock. If the regulations did not work satisfactorily he would be prepared, at the end of twelve m'Gnths to re-consider the whole position. He wished to make it qu£t& clear that the desire of the Department was to make tho regulations educative father than punitive. The Minister leaves to-mor-row for Cromwell, where he will join the Prime Minister.

Speaking recently at Christchurch the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. ' R. McNab, said that something would havo to be dono to make the cost of necessary improvements^ in dairy farm premises f nil less harshly on the tenant. Questioned by a N.Z. Times reporter a*J to what ho meant by this suggestion. Mr McNab said the idea he had in hisj mind was that the relative interests of the landlord and the' tenant should be, assessed in the statutory requirements, | and each should pay according to his assessed interest. This was inoperative, said Mr McNab, if the dairy inspection being introduced was to be effective in the case of leasehold formers, espeoially where tho leases were for a brief tftrin . "N