BRITAIN TO PAY EXTRA £1,500,000 STERLING FOR N.Z. CHEESE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22694, 20 July 1948, Page 6

BRITAIN TO PAY EXTRA £1,500,000 STERLING FOR N.Z. CHEESE

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 20. Advice that under the terms of the new contract with Britain for the sale of New Zealand’s exportable dairy produce the price next season for cheese will be 133/- sterling per cwt. f.o.b. has been received from London by the Dairy Products Marketing Commission.

This is an increase of 15/- on last season’s price of 118/-.

"V- The new price represents an increase of about 12.7 per cent, on last season’s price, compared with a 14.5 increase in the butter price which was announced last week. In the nine years that the bulk purchasing system has been operating the price Britain has paid New Zealand for its cheese has risen by more than 100 per cent. ; On the basis of the 1947 volume of ■ production the new cheese price of i 133 s sterling per cwt. will add about ■ £1.500.000 sterling to New Zealand’s export income.

DAIRY FACTORY MANAGERS’ PAY INCREASED

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 20. The North Islana dairy factory managers' award which has just been issued by the Court of Arbitration increases the basic rates of salaries for butter and cheese factory managers' by £62 a year. Branch managers in cheese and milk powder factories are to be paid in accordance with a scale less 5 per cent, provided that the d_eduction does not bring their salaries below £523 7s and the maximum salary shall not be above £623 7s.

Supervising managers, dual-plant managers, factory managers and branch managers shall fie provided with a free, suitable residence or allowance therefor and requisites consisting of cheese, milk and fuel (and butter when such is sold to suppliers) in respect of cheese factories, and butter, milk and fuel in respect of butter factories with a maximum of 41b of butter a week in both cases for the manager’s own household requirements. The award will operate throughout the Northern Taranaki and Wellington Industrial districts and will be deemed to come into force on June 1, 1948, and continue to May 31, 1950.