DAIRY INDUSTRY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 4 June 1937, Page 8

DAIRY INDUSTRY

CONFERENCE AT HAMILTON. REMITS FOR DISCUSSION. The National Dairy Association Conference is to be officially opened on June 23 at Hamilton by Hon- W. ■ Lee Martin (Minister of Agriculture), and promises to be a most interesting gathering in as much as it comes at the end of the first season during which guaranteed prices have been in operation. Remits dealing with all phases of the dairy industry will be discussed, particularly bearing on the marketing policy adopted by the Government. The Kaitaia Dairy Company intends to submit a remit urging that nominees of the conference be appointed to the committee set up to assist the Government in determining the guaranteed price for butterfat. A remit will be presented on behalf of tile Kaipara company, asking the Government to take charge and pay t° r all butter immediately after it has been graded at the store. The opinion is expressed in a remit front the Te lloro company that the shipping of cheese from store should be expedited, or, as an alternative, that export cheese be paid for within one month after its arrival at the grading store. The Rongoltokako cheese company lias a remit requesting the Government to take over all cheese manufactured at the factory door, and the Oliakune company will ask for support for a remit urging the Government to make the advance for dairy produce as soon as it is .graded. ADVANCE PAYMENTS. The Whangarei company Will submit the following remit; —“That in the opinion of this conference dairy factory companies are being forced to incur unnecessarily high interest charges during the autumn months, this being the time when overseas shipments ot dairy produce are retarded. This conference, therefore, in view of the fact that under the guaranteed price 6cheme all dairy produce virtually becomes the property of the Government when manufactured, urges that such produce be paid for as from date ot grading instead of as from i-o-.b----ocean steamer, and that failing reliet in this direction this conference considers the only alternative is to retain advance payments to suppliers in similar manner.” Several remits from cheese companies define their attitude in the event of a surplus ill the dairy industry account from the marketing of cheese. The Linkwater company will submit a remit asking that any. surplus in the cheese pool be returned to the cheese companies. The following remit ivili he moved on behalf of the Ngaere company: —“That in the event or there being a substantial surplus in this season’s cheese account, and to safeguard tlie cheese industry, the Government be urged to make a supplementary payment to cheese companies.” PRODUCTION COSTS. The Waiohiki company has a remit dealing with cheese production costs. It considers that to take the aveiage costs of production for all lactones when fixing the price to he paid lor cheese is hardly fair to the small cheese companies. The remit states that smaller factories predominate and that to encourage them to continue an average of the costs of factories manufacturing, say, 1:30 to 200 tons annually, should be taken as the basis of costs. . A suggestion that a premium be paid for butter manufactured during the winter months is contained in a remit from the Heretaunga company. It is contended that if this were done the winter supply of cream would be encouraged and the winter supply ot butter for the local and export trade maintained. • . Tlie increasing number of returns demanded from dairy companies is a subject of general complaint. lne Te Horo company expresses the opinion that many new returns asked tor by Government departments had increased work to such an alarming extent that it should be paid tor by tfie departments concerned. A similar view is expressed in remits trom tlie Rai Valley and the Oliakune companies The latter company states that so far as part-time secretaries are concerned, the position lias become desperate. The requirements ot tne Employment Tax Division for mclividual returns for suppliers for tlie year ended March 31 are described by the Cheltenham company as oppressive. In view of tlie couflict of opinion regarding recent industrial legislation, the Oruru-Fairburn company lias a remit suggesting that a hind be established, contribution to be on a tonnage basis, for the purpose where necessary of taking test cases and obtaining authoritative decisions tor the guidance of employers in the mdustry REMITS FROM KAIRANGA. The inauguration of a more economical method of milk grading at cheese factories is advocated by tne Kairanga company, which also has a remit urging that milk supplied to factories be paid for on its basic value for the purpose for which the milk is utilised. Tlie Wairoa company has a remit suggesting that the 1 rimaiy Products Marketing Department should deal in complete pence and not halfpence when fixing wholesale or retail butter prices for the local market. A reduction in the grading cliarces is urged by’ the north in a remit from the North Auckland Dairy Conference. The Oliakune company considers that dairy factories manufacturing dairy produce only should not come within the ambit of the I actories Act, hut should be included .in the Agricultural Workers Act. * Two companies, the Ka.ta.a company and the Rai Valley company, will advocate the abolition of daylicht saving in view of the reduced hours of work and increased holidays now granted to workers. _