“CHOP & CHANGE” SUPPLIERS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 7

“CHOP & CHANGE” SUPPLIERS

GREATER STABILITY SOUGHT ZONING SYSTEM DISCUSSED (By Telegraph— Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., June 26. A suggestion that dairy factories should be amalgamated on a system of zoning to check suppliers changing over from one factory to another between the end of one dairying season and the beginning of another was made by the chairman of the Dairy Board (Air A. J. Alurdoch, AI.P.) in an address at the national dairy conference to-day. Air Alurdoch said the trend of opinion in the industry was that there should be stability so. far as the individual factories were concerned, and that there should not bo the present chopping about from one factory* to another.

The board had already discussed the position with the Commission of Agriculture, but the attitude of that body was that at the moment it was not prepared to approach the Government and ask for an Order-in-Council to control the practice. Further discussions, however, would be hold with the commission. Something might lie done in other ways, possibly by zoning or amalgamation. He took it that the commission had examined the conditions and was of the opinion as a result of its findings that it was not advisable to put regulations controlling the position into operation. It occurred' to him that something practical might bo accomplished by individual factories endeavouring to effect nriialgamation. He was satisfied that in many cases the situation could be met by that method.