THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 143, 19 May 1932, Page 7

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

CONFERENCE IN JUNE. MILK GRADING QUESTION. Milk grading will constitute a prominent feature of the discussions at the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association to be held at Palmerston North in June, and it is undertsood that the future policy to be followed in this respect will rest entirely with the votes of the delegates. Another important matter for discussion will be the basis of payments to suppliers according to cream grade. Nineteen remits have so far been sent in for tho conference, and they deal with matters of moment for the dairy industry. Among them are tho following:— That this conference is of the opinion that the cream grading regulations should be amended to provide that all cream must be graded at the factory only.—Levin Dairy Company. That clause 22 of the Dairy Industry Amendment Regulations gazetted on November 15, 1926. be amended to read: “All such whole milk cream or whey cream containing less than 32 per cent, by weight of butterfat shall be paid for at the rate of id per lb butterfat less than the rate that would otherwise have been payable for it aocording to its grad©, and all whol© milk cream containing 35 to 38 pel' cent by weight of butterfat shall be paid id premium above that rate which would otherwise have been payable for it according to its grade.”—Tamaki Dairy Company. . That the regulations governing the differential payments for finest, first and second grade cream be amended as follows:—‘ ‘Payment to each supplier of such whole-milk cream shall bo so made that the rate shall bo at least id per lb of butterfat more for cream graded as finest than that graded as first grade, and at least id per lb of butterfat less for cream graded as second grade than for that graded as first grade.—Moa Farmers’ Dairy Company. QUESTION OF COSTS.

That in view of the low price ruling for butterfat, and also taking into consideration the various efforts being made to bring down costs, a substantial reduction should be made in the various levies made.—Awahuri Dairy Company. That in order to reduce the cost of manufacture of butter and cheese it should be directed to all dairy companies to consider the overlapping in cream carting and secure savings in manufacture costs. —Ohura Valley Dairy Company.. , That the Government bo iirged to compel all proprietary companies manufacturing butter or cheese to submit a balance-sheet and statement of the over-run on the same lines as a cooperative company. Ohura Valley Dairy Company. THE DAIRY BOARD.

That a vote of tho producers bo taken on the question as to whether the producers are in favour of the retention or disbanding of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board.—Tui Dairy Company. That the Government be asked to restore the cut of 5 per cent, in the wages of the lower paid workers.— Buffer Valley Dairy Company. That in view of the preferential treatment received by New Zealand from Great Britain, and as Britain is practically our only market for produce, it be a recommendation to tho Government that all British goods be admitted duty free into New Zealand. —Taihapo Dairy Company. That the Government be requested to pass legislation to enable tne Department of Agriculture to exercise closer supervision over the sale of stock medicines and remedies, to ensure that they be suitable for tho purpose for which they are sold, and to prevent excessive charges for all such medicines, etc. —Tatua Dairy Company. Tho Te Horo Company has a remit advocating legislation dealing with certain aspects of dairy company articles of association.