DAIRY PARLIAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 5

DAIRY PARLIAMENT.

NATIONAL MEETING.

IMPORTANT AGENDA PAPER.

RESTRICTION OF EXPORTS.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Representative dairymen from all parts of the Dominion will assemble in Hamilton on June 21 for the annual conference of the National Dairy Association, which is virtually the dairymen s Parliament. In many respects the conference, which will bo attended by delegates from the leading dairy companies in New Zealand, will bo the most important ever held. Tariff preference to Britain, improvement in the quality of our dairy produce, and marketing problems will be the headings summarising the main issues to bo discussed. There will be a strong movement to support the Dairy Produce Board's opposition to the suggested restriction of New Zealand exports to Britain. Such a movement is likely to coincide with a "cneral clamour for the Government to ° fulfil its obligations under the Ottawa agreements by reducing tariffs on British goods. Unanimity of opinion in this direction seems indicated, especially in view of Mr. Dynes Fulton's assurance that South Island dairy producers, for the most part, favour the adoption of such a course. Local Price of Butter. Attention is drawn in the association's annual report to the need for definite action to place the sale of butter for domestic consumption on an equitable basis. Since voluntary schemes have proved inadequate in preventing severe losses through indiscriminate pricecutting it is considered that some form of compulsory control may bo tho only alternative. Discussion on this problem will centre around the stabilisation scheme submitted by Mr. A. J. Sinclair, secretary-manager of the To Awamutu Co-operative Dairy Company, and a remit asking for endorsement of the scheme appears on the order paper.

A remit from tlie Pihama Co-operative Dairy Company, with the object of increasing the local consumption of checse, recommends the Dairy Board to take absolute control of the sales _ of cheese on the local market by licensing factories to supply such markets. It is suggested that the prices be fixed each fortnight on a London parity basis and that supplying factories be compelled to adhere to them. While the recently gazetted dairy regulations are calculated to produce a general improvement in the quality of dairy products, producers are evidently not satisfied to let the matter rest at that, and the conference will consider a number of remits aimed at evolving a better article. Special attention will be focused on cheese quality, and during the week delegates will have the opportunity of hearing experts expound the results of recent research work. The need for exploring the possibilities of new markets will not be neglected,

although the prospects of unanimity appear remote. Factories manufacturing dried and condensed milk, casein, and other dairy by-pvoducts are likely to be more interested than the average butter and cheese company. Many matters of minor importance will Too dealt with by the conference. During the week the annual meetings will be held of the National Dairy Association, Ltd., the New Zealand Cooperative Rennet Company, Ltd., the Dominion Group Herd-testing: Federation, and the New Zealand Producers' Co-operative Marketing Association, Ltd. Addresses will be given by Mr. W. M. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, Agricultural Department. Dr. E. Marsden, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Mr. Dynes Fulton, acting-chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, and Professor W. Riddet, of the Dairy Research Institute, Massey College.