NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 3

NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

'• SOUTH ISLAND MEETING. ' •' (BY TEMOBAFU —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) • Dunedin, June 3. The annual meeting of the National Dairy Association (South Island) was held to-day. Mr. Baron (Gore) moved that no second grade marks be .placed on cheese for export. Instances were quoted'"of cases where cheese graded as second grade .had realised higher price, than first . grade in the same shipment. Mr; : Singleton .that 5 the 'above fact was due' to, the condition of "the/ cheese market at Home." Owing to' the; falling off in Britain's imports . of ; cheese from North America there was a demand for meaty bodies in'':cheese;' The matter would, be 1 carefully nai)';p9(uu)M eippnQ ran ueijAi ojoi; auoS England. - . . . At ; the. request of the'• meeting,!, Mrl Singleton spoke on the state of the cheese at the time of shipment. He said the North Island factories were very careful, but-for the last' six or 'seven years South Island cheese did not present such a satisfactory appearance. There was too much handling to enable cheese to goraway at its best. Mr. Scott, in endorsing Mr. Singleton's re-, marks, "said'the methods of transhipments at "Wellington were quite obsolete. On' the arrival, of shipments on occasions, cheese-which-was broken down was' given preference," whereas under normal conditions it would ;have been second quality; He strongly advised adherence to the present system. '. . '. ;After:'Mr. explanation the motion was withdrawn. •It was decided to ask the. Government to inquire "into the' question 1 of the temperature of chambers carrying cheese 1 in opean steamers,..and *to- provide- a thermograph to be inspected before a vessel leaves New Zealand, and read arid recorded by the dairy expert at' Home. " ' t , j'A O3 , : Milne ; (W.yndham)'.was Island), Mr.; James Milne (Wyndham) was elected' president. The oommittee decided that all resolutions; passed at the summer conferences be remitted to''the annual meeting, and that notices of such motion b'q sent to_each'factory not less than thirty davs before tho annual meeting.