FOR DAIRYING INDUSTRY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 257, 31 October 1939, Page 8

FOR DAIRYING INDUSTRY

DIVERSION OF £6.000.000 FROM PUBLIC WORKS HAMILTON SUGGESTION. [ Per Fre*i Association ) HAMILTON. Oct. 30. A suggestion that £6.000.000 he- diverted from this year’s Public Works expenditure to assist the dairying industry to give increased production was made by Mr. C. J. Parlane, general manager of the New Zealand Dairy’ Company to-day. He also advocated the transference of the State Housing construction activities from the towns to the country. If £6,000,000 were put into the industry. he said, it would mean a rise of approximately 3d per lb. in butterfat, which would go a long way toward assisting the farmers to pay competive wages and solve the major problem in connection with increased production. If better wages were offered many men now on public works would probably return to the farms. “The way wc are going production must decrease,” said Mr. Parlanc. “In the last two years it dropped 19 per cent., and production in September was 30 per cent, lower than three years ago.” He discounted a suggestion that some farmers were sitting nack and not making full use of their land. ,