DAIRY INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1933, Page 12

DAIRY INDUSTRY

NEW REGULATIONS

DIFFERENTIAL PAYMENTS

Further regulations covering the control of the dairying industry were gazetted last evening. The regulations deal with the question of differential payments and also prohibit the waxing of cheese prior to export, except with the consent of the Director 0/ the Dairy Division. Previous regulations required milk for the manufacture of cheese' or butter to be graded daily by certain prescribed tests. The amending regulations afford more latitude and permit grading to bo done daily or a lesser number 'of times, but not less than three times during each testing period, which usually covers ten days.

Provision is ma tic for .alternative methods of payment where milk grading is not, carried out daily. Those suppliers who receive first grade for. their milk on the da}'s of general grading, may be paid as for first grade for all milk delivered during the ten-day testing period. Those suppliers -who on the day of general grading receive second grade would have their milk graded by test on each succeeding day until a first grade is attained and would receive payment accordingly. ' • . A further alternative method may be adopted where it is considered frequent grading is too much of a task. Grading may be actually carried out the minimum of three times in a tenday period, and dairy companies may arrange with suppliers to accept payment based on the proportion of first and second grades during the period. A fair representative sample of the night's and morning's milkings as mixed is to be taken for grading. One of the amending regulations requires that the manager of a registered cheese factory shall record the temperature and humidity of the curing room daily. The practice of waxing cheese prior to export is to be discontinued excepting where the Director of the Dairy Division, is satisfied that an importer of cheese into the United Kingdom has made a request that such cheese be waxed before export. The regulations become effective immediately. v •

At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the New Zealand. Society of Accountants the following were admitted to membership of the society:—Messrs. E. K. Miller, T. H. Mulholland (Auckland), E. M. G'austad, S. M. Kinross, A. F. Taylor (Wellington), E. A. Mathowson (Dunedin), and J. A. Rbnton (In.vercargill).