OUT-OF-DATE PHOTOS

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1577, 22 November 1924, Page 5

OUT-OF-DATE PHOTOS

TO ADVERTISE NEW ZEALAND DAIRY INDUSTRY. /

Mr F. Lye, M.P., is a keen advocate for the farmers’ interests, and in this connection it may be noted that he had a tilt at the Minister for Agriculture during the closing hours of the session in connection with a display of photographs, allegedly out of date, used :to advertise the dairy 'industry of New Zealand in Great Britain. The Minister has now written to Mr Lye as follows: • *

“Referring to the question which you addressed to me 'last session relative to the method of advertising the Dominion dairying industry in the High Commissioner’s office, I now beg to inform you that a report on the subject has been received from the High Commissioner, who reports that the display in question,, which took place in July, 1923, was considered an excellent one and was arranged by the London representative of the New Zealand Co-op. Dairy Co. That an old photograph was .included in the display is admitted, but the High Commissioner submits that this wascomparatively unimportant, the object of the exhibition being to attract the attention of the general public to the excellence of New Zealand dairy produce, and it may be assumed that few, if any of the public, would pay much attention, to the fact of the photograph in question being out of date. At the time of the display no recent photograph of a dairy factory was available in. the High Commissioner’s office. This has, however, since been remedied and in future displays photographs of more recent origin will be used.