TO CONSERVE STOCKS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 13 July 1942, Page 5

TO CONSERVE STOCKS

CONTROL OF RUBBERWARE REASON FOR REGULATIONS' ; “The purposes of the MilkingMachine Control Order, 1942, and,' the two amendments were explanatory,” said the Director-General of Agriculture, Mr A. H. Cockayne. “The order and its amendments, control the sale of milking machines', metal parts and milking machine rubberware, and are designed to conserve the available stocks of metals, and especially rubber, used 1 in connection with* these plants,

“Briefly stated, • the position is that before a buyer can palea en order for a milking plant or a part of a milking plant other than a metal part which is exclusively a renewal or replacement or a metal part of the milking-machine for the time being used in the dairy and is riot an extension or duplication or standby or spare part, and before a seller -can accept the order, the buyer must obtain a written permit from the farm dairy, instructor for the district and produce it to the seller.

“The quantity of rubberware which a milking machine user may* hold as spares' is confined to air and milk dropper rubberware and one set of moulded, inflations, where moulded inflations are used, for one bail, one complete set of claw rubber® and soft inflations, where soft in- . flations are used, for each set of teat cups in use in his dairy. “Before selling to a dairy farmer any . milking-machine . rubberware the vendor* must receive from' the purchaser’* a written and signed order setting out the quantities sought to be purchased and must be satisfied by- the purchaser that they are within the foregoing* limits. The vendor* must keep all such orders for inspection for 12 months. “All retailers and all users/ of milking machine rubberware are requir ed to conform to the conditions set out in the order. The penalty for a contravention, in the case of a person, is a sum not exceeding £2OO and/or 12 months’ imprisonment, and in the case of a company, a sum npt exceeding £I(XM).”