CHEESE INDUSTRY

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1930, Page 5

CHEESE INDUSTRY

COMPULSORY .EVY PROPOSAL [pee press association.] J CWERA, June 18. Arising from t 3 meeting of the Taranaki Federa on of Dairy Factories which on ’riday last affirmed the principle of the payment of a premium on the finest quality of cheese, the Fedei tion Executive met Mr W. M. Single in, Director of the Dairy Division, ■. i Monday evening. A-report issued t day by the Federation states that, .fter a full discussion with Mr S. .gleton, it was decided to recommc d to the Dominion Conference at II milton “that the system of a com] ilsory levy and the payment of a pre aium on cheese, according to qualitj be instituted; such levy to be made and such premium paid in groups > f factories, according to their grad, ig stores; the basis of the scheme to be grading points and differential p< yments according to grade.” The effect of t lis recommendation would be that all of the factories grading at a part icular centre would constitute a group. The report states that all the cheese graded would carry a levy at so much per crate (2/- per crate was tentatively suggested). The levy would constitute a fund to be paid out on all the cheese concerned according to the grading points. Subject to any better suggestion by the Hamilton Conference, it was considered that a 90 points cheese might form the basis, such cheese to carry no premium, while each half point in grading above 90 points would carry a premium for that cheese of 5d per crate. One of the difficulties apparent upon the payment of a straightout premium on the finest grade was that the factories striving to attain the finest grade, but meeting with difficulties, might be discouraged. The system of payment of the premium on the grading points would overcome this difficulty. Then it further was recognised that in cheese-making the circumstances in different districts vary, and it might be unfair for one particular district to be subscribing a large sum in the -way of a premium that W’as paid to other districts, where, by virtue of the nature of the country and other reasons, cheese scoring higher in the grading could be made. To meet this difficulty it was suggested that the levying and payment of a premium on grading points be done in groups, according to grading store and locality.