WILL DISAPPEAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 10

WILL DISAPPEAR.

DAIRY PRODUCE AGENTS.

LITTLE WORK NOW REMAINS.

Glaziers working with speed on the windows of the offices formerly occupied by the New Zealand Producers' Cooperative Marketing Association in Fort Street yesterday and to-day gave a forceful indication of the trend of the times, for under the Primary Products Marketing Act, which came into operation to-day, dairy produce agents in Auckland will not be required in future.

Slowly agents throughout New Zealand will drop out of business, and firms which have handled exclusively dairy produce will be forced to close down. Big firms which have handled dairy produce only as a branch of their activities will have to abandon their dairy branches, and in some cases it may be necessary for staffs to be reduced. Already two Auckland offices have closed down and others aro expected to be out of business aext week. Little work remains to l>e done by the other Auckland agents. By about the middle of the month shipment of the last of the okl season's butter will have been made, but it i 3 expected that old season's cheese will be shipped up till t;he end of October. Once the old season's produce has been finally disposed of by the agents their work will have been completed.

All the new season's produce will become the property of the Government under the new Act. From to-day the offices of the Dairy Board in Auckland has become a branch of the Primary Products Marketing Department, which is controlled by the Minister of Finance, ' !'o Hon. W. Nash.