GROWING IN FAVOUR

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 284, 26 August 1922, Page 8

GROWING IN FAVOUR

CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING ANNUAL MEETING OF N.Z. ASSOCIATION ’ ' Thp second annual meeting of the New Zealand Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Association, Ltd., was held in the Dominion Farmers’ Institute on Wednesday. Mr. H. D. Forsyth, de-puty-chairman, presided, and there was a representative gathering of shareholders present from the North and South Islands. The report and bal-ance-sheet for tbe year was unanimously aAipted. The retiring directors, Messrs. J. R. Thacker, Canterbury, A. E. Jones, Southland, and E. Harding, Hawke’s Bay, were re-elected. It is reported that those present, on behalf of the factories whose outputs of dairy produce had been handled in the United Kingdom by the London Board, expressed themselves as more than satisfied with the results attained during the second year’s operations of the association. They recognised that good work had been done in London by tho Board of Directors, not only in regard to prices realised, but in the reduction of the cost of handling a distinct advantage had been attained. Tho indirect gain and benefits to producers throughout the Dominion by the inauguration of the scheme had beqn very great, and with the control of a larger quantity of produce, better and more stable prices would be ultimately obtained. In the first, year of its operatlbna, 56 dairy factories’ outputs had been dealt with by the association, and in the second' year of its existence the number had increased to 66. The quantity of produce handled by the association from these 66 «*ctorios represented one-ninth part of the total cheese exported from New Zealand, and one-fortieth part of the butter. This was regarded as a clear indication that co-operative marketing was growing in favour. Probably the most important question considered by the meeting was the appointment of an organiser in New Zealand, with the object of bringing before directors of dairy companies the benefits and advantages to bo derived by linking up with the concern, and a recommendation was made ro the directors that this matter should receive their serious and earnest consideration at an early date.