CHEESE PAYMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 7

CHEESE PAYMENTS.

QUESTION CF INCREASE. (.'KADIN'i; AN I) MiKINKAGK. i (I'y 1 «-1.-^r;i|.?i. — I*r<--s Association ) I TON NoKTII. Friday. j At ;i conference m" chec-e factory dele- | liat es held recently in IVi liner-ton North i In con-iiier mailer- urgent to l lie indtis- : try. in \ ieu of ri-in:: costs and the ' proximity of the new <-ca-on. three | resolutions were j —<-tl in rc-pect to additional payments to cheers' com- j panics. oradino and shrinkage. To these j the act i ni; M i ni-ter of Marketing. Hon. j W . l.ee Martin. has replied a- follows:— *I he riNjuest that the (Government . should con-ider the payment of some I additional amount t.. cheet-e companies J lias already lieen represented to the 1 (»o\ eminent. and will l»e considered in ; the lijrht of result* of the season's j operation-. 1 can. however, pive no undertaking that there will l>e anv j review of the o\i-tin;r arrangements in respect of the season just closing. ! In connection with the sujijrestion that there should lie a slipht variation i" pradinjj points for cheese carrvinji the Ihisic guaranteed price. 1 have to state that con-idcration will Ik? piven it. 1 would point out. however, that for thiii season 7S jkt cent of the total cheese output has lx-en paiil for at the existing lia-ic guaranteed juice ..r liettcr. 1 take it that tliis «i]| Ik- interpreted as an indication that the method of pavment I is roosonalily .sound. Actually . tlie \\cllinirton district cliee>e lactone- obtained the lia-ic guaranteed price f..r I'irt ]x-r cent of their output, and the lia-ie jirice or 1-etter for 7*.» per cent. In regard to the resolution dealing with tlie ipie-t inn of shrinkage on wa\e<l chee-e. 1 draw attention to the verycomplete statement made earlv in tlie sea-on on 11, - <|iie-t ion. !„ nieiit it was indicated that a general — Jiei ce nt -111 Mlka I'.. on cIKN'-n wa - allowed for in tlie "iiaraut 1 price formula. and 1 h:;t :t a «1 i fTer.-nt and lower shrinkajje were allowed f.. r on w.iyed chec-e. the pur.ha— price of that waved would lie lower th .n at j.re-cut. and thus the re-ultf. as f;tr a- the coTiipanies are concerned, would i,«-» different."