SOUTH ISLAND DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 135, 8 June 1906, Page 6

SOUTH ISLAND DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

■ [BT TJSLEGHAI'H. — I'UESS JSSOCIATIOU.J DUNEDIN, 7fh June. At the annual meeting of the National Da;ry Association (South Island) Mr. James Milne was re-eiectcd president. It was resolved that tfie Government do all it consistently can 'in the way of influencing the British Government to pass legislation to prevent) frauds on daily produce, which are detrimental to tho interests of both the .Home and colonial pioducts ; and thatf the New Zealand Government! aqk the British Government to- insert a clause in the Butter Bill giving colonial Governments' representatives the same power to enter premises as aTe given to British officials. It was aho lcsolved that the Dairy Commissioner be asked to have all buttier 'used. for homo consumption graded in the same way as that for export. Mr. Kinsella eaid tSe Department of Agriculture had decided to give the proposal referred to a tiial. It was also resolved that the inspection of miUi and milking yards supplying dairy factories should at once bo put under the control of the Dairy Department, and that a qualified man be appointed to instruct factory milk suppliers and inspect milk yards and sheds ; that the association strongly u/ges the Government to start and equip at once an experimental station and dairy school for the Dairy Department!, as this is urgently required ; that steps be taken to- reduce tire insurance ' rates on daily factories, machinery, and stock.