DAIRY BOARD’S WORK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 202, 27 July 1937, Page 12

DAIRY BOARD’S WORK.

ATTITUDE OF THE FARMERS. RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION. WHANGAREI, July 26. “There has teen agitation in some quarters for the abolition or reduction of the New Zealand Dairy Board levy, but it is really a question for the farmers themselves to decide,’’ said Mr A. J. Murdoch, chairman of the Dairy Board, at the annual meeting of the Maungatapere Cooperative Dairy Co.. Ltd. “The question is: Do you want the board to continue with such matters as dairy research? I believe you should. - . , “Tho levy has been reduced since the Government took over tho marketing of the produce, because the board has been relieved of the expense of advertising overseas and the work of selling tho produr/, Mr Murdoch continued. “We paid £IO,OOO during the year to the free milk for schools scheme, but no such amount will bo paid next year. We also allowed for £IO,OOO for a schemo of Dominion farm dairy instruction. However, the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. W. Lee Martm, estimates that the best scheme will cost about £50,000 and that the industry should contribute 60 per cent, and the Government 40 per cent. In that case I take it that the industry will contribute through tho Marketing 'Department. “From various meetings. I am now sa t" isfied that the industry wants the scheme, and the next step toward its establishment rests with the Minister,” Mr Murdoch concluded.