MEETING EXTRA COSTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 292, 22 September 1941, Page 3

MEETING EXTRA COSTS

THE CHANGE-OVER TO CHEESE. FIRST CHARGE ON THE ACCOUNT WELLINGTON September 21. Further details of the special account. to be created with the. Marketing Department from the proceeds of the additional os 9d sterling per cwt to be paid for exported cheese for the 1941-42 season were revealed to-day by the Minister for Marketing (the Hon. J. G. Barclay). . The Mipister said it was intended that a special committee, representative of both the Government .and the industry, should be set up to recommend to the Government the extent of dairy factory and suppliers’'costs, arising from the change-over to cheese, which could fairly be regarded as a charge on the special account. The Government had last year, in the initial stages of the change-over, given an undertaking that it would assume the responsibility for these costs and that undertaking had been given before there was any recognition of these costs on the part of the United Kingdom Government. Dairy farmers and the representatives of butter and cheese -companies could therefore be assured that the Government, after consideration of the recommendations of the committee, would makepay me lit s from the account toward the extra costs, which the committee was to examine. These payments woqld, in effect, constitute a first charge on the .account.