The Waikato Times, THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE, AND KAWHIA ADVOCATE. Established Thirty-Four Years. THE OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER IN THE WAIKATO. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY" DAILY PAPER SOUTH OF AUCKLAND. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1906. SUPERVISING THE MARKET

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8018, 25 September 1906, Page 2

The Waikato Times, THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE, AND KAWHIA ADVOCATE. Established Thirty-Four Years. THE OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER IN THE WAIKATO. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY" DAILY PAPER SOUTH OF AUCKLAND. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1906. SUPERVISING THE MARKET

So far but little hats been noted in the Waikato on the very important proposal to send Home a representative of New Zealand dairy concerns to investigate and report on the conditions obtaining in the Mother Country irx respect to butter and cheese. Of course it will be urged that as the Governmeut Lave already a Commissioner in Londor,, lii is not at all necessary to incur need---*ats*ii>H in duplicating. But a less t... - yy-iil show that this moment s .. b j e aQ(J gentleman, however ■ anergetic he may be, cannot t i id the industry that jnatice it* Toluwe

demands, for b< has to divide his time and attention between all elates of commodities exported, and buoter aad cheese are but a portion of his charge. The dairy companies' agent would be instructed to make detailed inquiries concerning every phase of the marketing of their output ; transport, storage, distribution, would each come uuder review, while full reports on the condition of cargoes on arrival would be of the utmost value in assisting to improve the quality of the manufactured article. The supervision and control of distribution is of most pressing nature, for hitherto nothing has been attempted in ihis direction. Our more formidable rivals, Canada and Denmark, have for long had not one, but several such representatives in Great Britain, and it is to this that the greater portion of the strides in popularity made by their butters in recent years is due We are perfectly aware that as far as the principal Waikato association is concerned, there is very little need for individual improvement, hut we are speaking now for the general body of dairymen who are not all in the same happy position. But even in our own case much good should result from the adoption of the proposal, which is the outcome of the recent conference of dairymen at Palmerston North. It is now stated that £BSO of the £IOOO necessary before the agent can be dispatched has been collected, and surely there are still enough factories not yet included which can very well afford to contribute to the cost. It would be a thousand pities if the backwardness of a few delayed the matter for another year, because this is not one of those few things from which immediate results may be reasonably expected ; an agent could not possibly become thoroughly acquainted with all the ins and outs under a year. Therefore should be taken to heart : " What thou doest, do quickly."