CHEESE PAYMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 9

CHEESE PAYMENTS

Margin of l|d Above Figure for Butter PACKING REGULATIONS By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 1. The acting-Director of Marketing, Mr G. A. Duncan, announced to-dcy that the Marketing Department, in making payments to dairy factories for the 1938-37 season under the Government guaranteedprice plan, would so arrange payments that the average price to be paid for cheese would be fixed at such a figure as would yield a margin of 1 jd a pound for butterfat processed into cheese above the average price of butterfat processed into butter. Mr Duncan stated that the Govern meat had considered representations made to it in regard to the fixation of the butterfat margin of 1 jd a pound for cheese manufacture and had agreed that it was desirable that, in order to stabilise the relative production quantities of butter and cheese, this margin be recognised. It was felt that an announcement would reassure supplier* to cheese factories who might have contemplated transferring their supplies for next season to butter factories. Mr Dunean further stated that the question of type of butter boxes had also been considered and that a decision had been reached to recognise the regulations sub-standard box as complying with all the requirements of the department. For that reason no additional payment would be made in re speet of butter packed in the regulation standard box. Inquiries had been made regarding the eoet of packing in the regulation sawn saranac box, and it had been decided that butter packed in that box would be paid for at 3d a box leu than for butter packed in the regulation standard and sub-standard boxes. In order to enable the required number of boxes to be made available for next season it would be necessary for factories to order approximately the same proportionate quantities of each type as during the reason now closing. The Government, Mr Duncan added, had ascertained that if orders for boxes were placed immediately there would be no need for further importations of Boxes for next season.