With the arrival yesterday aboard the s. Sydney Maru of 50 Jersey Cows, the Lucerne Dairy Farm h resumed the import of New Zealand heifers which had to be interrupted when hostilities broke out hear last year. The cattle which had to be unloaded on a specially-built platform fitted with screens on both sides which would prevent their shying at the sight of motorcars and people, left Auckland on November 17.
With this addition to their present herd, the Lucerne Dairy Farms have opened a branch dairy on Lincoln Avenue where the old herd is to be kept in future whilst the Great West ern Road dairy will house young stock and the newly arrived animals.
In reply to a question, the manager of the Dairy, said that the New Jersey cows are by far the most suitable for Shanghai as they do not suffer from the local climate and heat whilst the risk of infection from contagious diseases is far smaller in view of the isolated geographical position of New Zealand:
The question of elimination of the danger of tuberculosis is one of the main factors of the Lucerne Dairy Farms policy and it is in view of this fact, added to the desire on the part of the management of the Lucerne Dairy, to give its customers the very best milk, cream and other dairy products available, that New: (Jersey cows are being imported from distant New Zealand. It is also the Quiet Restored in
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