DAIRY QUALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 145, 21 June 1935, Page 14

DAIRY QUALITY.

EFFORTS TO IMPROVE. OPPOSITION FROM PRODUCERS. (By TOlegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Thursday. It wae stated by Mr. J. Murray, of j Whakatane, 'at the annual meeting of j tho Jfew Zealand Dairy Factory Managers' , Association to-day that already three men had lost their positions as managers because - they adhered conscientiously to the dairy regulations. Mr. Murray added that managers who earnestly endeavoured to comply with the regulations often earned .the dieapproval, of factory directors. In his annual address, Mr. P. K. H. Petersen, of Cambridge, president, said lie was sure that in no other manufacturing concern had the producer, so much to say as in the dairy industry. Even in the other branches of the industry controlled by the fanners they were quite content to accept the judgment of their technical experts. "It is up to us," he aaid, "as managers of dairy factories, to improve our knowledge of the* industry to such an extent that dairy farmers will also look upon us as experts in the dairy industry."

Mr. W. M. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, sakl the division had been responsible for the regulation restricting for a brief period the transfer of a supply from one factory to another. This regulation had afforded managers some nieiisnre of protection, although he agreed that had all the loopholes been eliminated the position would have been more satisfactory. It was the aim of the Dairy Division to see that the grading was in accordance with the regulations, irrespective of the attitude adopted by factory directors, who had not the privilege of setting the standard. There was no provision to deal with any company counternahclrig or influencing the contravention of regulations.