THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19801, 17 May 1934, Page 6

THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY

ASSISTANCE IN ITS PROBLEMS MANUFACTURERS’ OFFER By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN. May 16. At a meeting of the Dunedin Manufacturers Association to-night Mr James Hogg (president) referred to the offer of the Manufacturers Federation to assist the Dairying Industry. At the last meeting of the Association, said Mr Hogg, an offer was made to assist the dairy industry in any effort to promote the increased use in New Zealand of milk and other dairy products. Since then a pamphlet had been received from Mr P. O. Veale, research chemist to the Dairy Industry, covering a definite scheme under which he estimates that if cream was offered direct to the public at the same price as it is charged at for the production of butter for export, that additional cream equal to 10.000 tons of butter would be consumed within New Zealand each year, thus automatically reducing the present exports and helping to solve the dairying production problem. The adoption throughout New Zealand of the Christchurch scheme of supplying milk in bottles for consumption by school children would largely increase the use of milk as well as proving of great health benefit to children. Medical opinion supported the contention that children need more milk. Every section of the community, Mr Hogg continued, must be interested in assisting in the solution of the present dairying problem both in the direction of new markets overseas and particularly the increased consumption of dairy products in New Zealand. The New Zealand Manufacturers’ offer to assist in any propaganda in factories still held good, and he was sure a campaign to “use more milk,” would have beneficial results. He believed that a campaign similar to what New Zealand manufacturers were continually launching to exhort the public to “buy more New Zealand made goods” would be equally successful if applied to a Dominion effort to “consume more milk and cream” backed by vigorous propaganda and advertising. This was an avenue through which the dairying industry could be helped by cooperation between town and country. A committee was appointed to report to the Federation on the question of giving evidence before the Dairy Commission on aspects of the dairy problem that affected the manufacturing industries of the Dominion.

COMMISSION TO HEAR EVIDENCE TO-MORROW

By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, May 16. The hearing of evidence by the Dairy Industry Commission will be resumed on Friday. The Commission is not yet in a position to arrange an itinerary for its sittings at Stratford. Hamilton and Auckland. The indications are, however, that it will be at least the end of the first week in June and possibly the second week before the commission is able to complete the hearing of evidence in Wellington.