STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16507, 7 August 1919, Page 5

STRATFORD.

FROM OV It RESIDENT AGENT. August 4.—The choose factories have opened and whilst tho. milk supply keeps small will bo making butter. The public must not, however, (latter Itsoii that the partial famine that exists us regards {hat article will bo relieved, for the farmers themselves will require for ihe’r families all that is being made. As soon us their own needs arc supplied the directors will turn to the more profitable article. Another year or two of Government control of prices would result in there being no. butler but whey-buttcr. With the. raw mail rial costing 2s per )b., it is unlikely that anyone would lie forced to continue producing tho niauulacturcd article at. Is .5(1. The committee of tho old lab.-Lab. Party got together to-day and composed a telcgram of welcome in readiness for ■.Sir Joseph Ward's return. ' As tho wording includes a. hope that the baronet will be found lending the. party at tlie coming Parliamentary election it is evident that isimilortl Liberals are. not, looking forward to a continuance of the coalition. Whether it will be possible for Sir Joseph W ard or anyone else to Iranie a policy that will meet tho views of Liberals and Labourites alike is very douhtlul. Things have greatly altered since Mr._ Joseph Ward was th.e hope oi the .tiadteals. What the country wants most _ urgently is a few more men of administrative capacity, to clean up the moss left hv war in 'every department of tho public sendee. It is to the credit of the present Cabinet that they have pulled the country through the years of war with, on the whole, marked suc-ce.-s. But thev must ho stale and tired mid’the task of putting straight after cnuclvsm might very well be put into ether hands. How to pick the now men is ihe problem to be studied .