PAIRY INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 11

PAIRY INDUSTRY

SOUTH ISLAND -ACTIVITIES.

The annual report of the South Island Dairy Association, to be presented to the annual meeting to be held in Dunedin next month, shows a membership of 128. It is recognised that the shipping, companies have provided ample tonnage and that "produce has been lifted more expeditiously than for some years past.. It is most important that the produce is.got away with the utmost dispatch, especially at the early part of the season, when the markets are usually most favourable, and we are pleased to say we have no ground for complaint in this respect so far as the past year is concerned."

Hope is reposed in the Control Board that it will be able to regulate shipping in order to prevent serious fluctuation in prices for produce; also that it will succeed in elucidating and rectifying the great, disparity between Danish ami New Zealand buttcv prices, there being uo question of the inferiority of New^Zcalaud to Danish butler. Complaint is made of the '"excessive rates of railway freight with which the industry is burdened."

Highest, average gradings obtained during the season were, Mr. Walter Rush, Waitaki Factory, O.amaL'U, 03.941 for butter; Mr. George Eoberts, Maungatua Factory, 93.463 for cheese. South Island shipments for tlio season ended 50th April, were 217,228 bcxes butter, 175,207 crates cheese; tho produce going mostly to London, but smaller parcels to Avonmouth, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow direct. Lyttelton and Timaru lead in export of butter; Bluff in cheese. ■

The topics o£ discussion at the. annual meeting will be reduced railway charges on produce for cool stores and from stores to ship side ; institution of the ward system for the election of members of the Dairy Control sßoard, and the compulsory grading of cream.