HERD TESTING
NATIONAL SERVICE MOOTED DAIRY WARD CONFERENCE (By Telegrapn.—Press Association) WE L LINGTO X Thursday. Following addresses by Mr A. H. Ward, technical officer nf the Herd Testing Department, and Mr J. D. Dunlop, a member of the Dairy Board, the dairy ward conference to-day passed a remit recommending the board to give consideration to the establishment of herd testing as a national service and to report to the next conference. It w-as also decided that the board should give every encouragement, financial and otherwise, to the efforts for the collection of herd statistics in relation to animal diseases. The possibility of the deficit of £338,750 in the Dairy Industry Account announced by the Hon. W. Nash yesterday, being amended, was mentioned in a. letter from Mr T. A. Duncan, director of the dairy produce export division. He says that there is still a number of returns, particularly cheese sales, to come. in. The final returns will he received during the next few weeks.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20426, 17 February 1938, Page 10
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