DAIRY PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 169, 18 July 1936, Page 12

DAIRY PRODUCE.

GUARANTEED PRICE. SYSTEM OF PURCHASE. PROCEDURE EXPLAINED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday.

The Department of Marketing to-day' announced further details of the procedure to be followed in the purchase of dairy produce under the guaranteed price scheme. Arrangements have been finalised regarding the shipment of the balance of the present season's produce and the. volume of detailed work which has had to be attended to by the actingDirector of Marketing, Mr. G. A. Duncan, and his associates is shown in the comprehensive plans made for the handling of all future dairy exports. The position regarding dairy produce manufactured prior to the start of the new season on August 1, but shipped after that date, has been clarified. In the case of f.o.b. or c.i.f. sales shipments will be made as usual to the purchaser or his agent. In the case of consignments shipment will be made to the merchant to whom the produce was allotted by the Dairy Board. In both cases the bills of lading will be prepared by the Marketing Department and handed to the New Zealand agents of the United Kingdom importers, who will prepare the usual drafts in favour of the dairy companies.

The Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, lias undertaken that the Department will render every possible assistance in the shipment and sale of the balance of the 1935-30 season's produce. He has, however, reserved the right to take any necessary measures to ensure the normal marketing of this j produce in a manner which will not interfere with marketing under the guaranteed price plan. Aa for the new season's produce, the Department intends to ask all dairy companies to clear up all butter and cheese manufactured before August 1, and after sending that produce to the grading stores to leave a break of at least one day before forwarding to the stores any butter or cheese made on or after August 1. The desire of the Department is. to have a break between the grading of old and new season's produce. Purchase Price Announcement. Under the terms of the Primary Pro-' ducts Marketing Act all butter and cheese manufactured from milk or cream delivered to a dairy factory on or after August 1 and intended for export, will become the property of the Crown as soon as it is placed on board ship. • The purchase price is expected to be announced shortly, and in connection with that price the system of differential payments on grade, announced on Monday, will come into operation. The new season's butter and cheese is to be forwarded to grading stores as in the past. In the case of cheese, dairy companies will be asked to forward three copies of specifications of weights to the office or agency of the Marketing Department in their particular territory. When bills of lading for shipments are completed payment of the full amounts due to dairy companies will be made, and the amounts due to them will be remitted by telegraph to the credit of their bank accounts. Forms of authority will be sent to dairy companies by which they can authorise and direct their respective banks to receive money on their behalf.

Under the new scheme the manufacture of special types of butter and cheese will still be required, and additional payments will be made over and above the differential margins based on graded quality. Some dairy companies will be required to manufacture specified quantities of unsalted butter. They will be recompensed by an additional payment 0f,2/4 per cwt for unsalted butter wrapped in ordinary parchment paper, as required by the dairy regulations, and of 2/7 J for unsalted butter wrapped in aluminium foil, backed with genuine vegetable parchment. In the case of lightlv-salted butter pro rata differential payments may be fixed as in the past. Cheese for Export. One-third of the total amount of cheese for export will have to be coloured, and all dairy companies manufacturing cheeso for export will be required to make one-third coloured and two-thirds white throughout the season. All additional payment of Od a crate will be made for- commercial standard coloured cheese, in the manufacture of which not less than 2\ox of clieeise colour per 10001b of milk has been used. Deep-coloured cheese manufactured at the request of the Department will receive an additional payment of 1/5 a crate. Dairy companies which in the past have waxed their export cheese, are required to continue this practice for the coming season. They will receive an extra payment of 4Jd a crate for cheese waxed in accordance with the dairy regulations. Butter packed in the quarter-inch saranac box will be paid for at' 3d a box less than butter packed in the standard, sub-standard and threeeighths inch saranac boxes. A decision r.f some importance to individual companies is that for the coming season existing factory brands will be retained. The retention of these brands was specifically requested at the national dairy conference in Hastings last month.