DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 193, 17 August 1939, Page 8

DAIRY INDUSTRY.

EAST TAMAKI COMPANY. GUARANTEED PRICE ISSUE. ' At the annual meeting of. the Hut ; Tamaki Co-operative Dairy Company, Lt3, held at East Tamaki on Tuesday, the fdlowing resolution bearing on -the question • of the guaranteed price -for- the present season waa carried unanimously after s L lengthy dissuasion * j "That- the Government he requested to ( state clearly, whether, wife;' price is intended to subsidise the dairy industry by means of public, credit for the increased cost of production due tof . Government policy, or ■whether it ii J merely the stabilisation over .a period «£ the actual prices received' through the sale of the commodity. v - V 1 "That as the farmer is compelled to ; absorb increased costs of production, cot : of living and other costal imposed by legislation by increased efficiency and increased production, the same degree of efficiency be demanded by the Government from all other sections of the community. "That this meeting of suppliers request that the representative committee set up last year consisting of representatives of th- Xational Dairy Conference. South Island Dairy Association, Firmer*' Inion and Dairy Board, place before the Government without delay the urgent necessity of establishing the recommendations of the 1938-39 Advisory Committee as the basis of the jniaranteed price lor the 1939-40 season. That the' committee be requested to report to the indwbT tlie results of the conference with tit Government, and that a general meeting of suppliers be c-alled immediately tEo report is available. "That as price stabilisation can bo of value to farmers only so long -as it can maintain a satisfactory relationship to costs, it is the opinion of this meeting of suppliers that there must be a ft ,r thff increase in the guaranteed price until ths Government have succeeded in maintaining a relative regree of stabilisation of coats."