DAIRYING IN WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16812, 2 June 1926, Page 11

DAIRYING IN WAIKATO.

A CONSUL’S CONGRATULATIONS. SHOW DESCRIBED AS MAGNIFICENT Mr Humberto Bidnne. ConsulGeneral of the Argentine in New Zealand, interviewed by a Waikato Times representative yesterday said: — “It is a great pleasure to find myself in Hamilton for the first time in order to admire, your magnificent Show, which is an illustration of intelligence. perseverance and faith in methodical work. Hamilton deserves the laurel of victory as a dairy district. Some ironical person would say that it is also appropriate from the point or view of its dear land! Here the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company exists. This is the largest co-operative organisation in the world, since in 102a-2G it manufactured more than 30,000 tons of dairy products. I would detain at Hamilton the enemies of co-operation so that they might study the great advantages of this economic-social system, the foundation of which is a marvellous commercial unity in the production, manufacture and marketing of produce, and which creates a moral affinity between its members, stimulating private initiative. 1 have followed attentively the progress of your dairy industry, which radiates honour and prosperity throughout the Dominion. Hamilton ought to ho considered a favoured daughter of New Zealand. Hamilton has a symbol materialised in the cow. The milking cow is the best, source dl' fond production for children and elderly people. The cow is responsible fop lho prosperity of this district because it is a constant income. A milking cow is preferahe to five steers, since if a steer produces fi43lb of food, one. cow produces 2t061h, or five times more. Further, Ihc steers are killed, and the cow goes on producing for six years.

“The Argentine is the principal exporter of beef and linseed and New Zealand or dairy products and lamb,” continued Mr Bidone. “The two countries have a parallel destiny of greatness in the universal concert. _ If Argentine has crises in prices, New Zealand has them In. markets. What is rerpiired for the stabilising of meat and dairy produce trade is the coordination and solidarity of industrial and commercial methods, between the producers of both countries and the consumers in England, avoiding the middlemen, who are the human drones in the industrial hive. Will you allow me to make one suggestion: endeavour by every means to, lessen the cost of production. The market of England is ttie goal where all the nations which produce fo-'d converge, as in a race of nations, and lho nation which is best organised technically and which j is nearest to England will win the race. Do not, forget that what the people buy is the best product the lowest prices, in business a moral or sentimental factor does not intrude, but only a commercial and monetary proposition, intellectual bread nourishes the spirit, but not the body. I have never been prosaic or utilitarian, but have lived in the speculative region of the sciences, letters and arts, and, like every human entity, .1 nourish myself every day with. your, beautiful lamb, unsurpassed hutier, delicious fish and apples. The cost of production is the most important factor in industry both primary aod secondary. To meet any fall in values there is no better or more sensible recourse than lo cheapen the cost of natural production, and if the fail does not materialise by so much more will the producer benefit.”