BOBBY CALF TRADE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 2

BOBBY CALF TRADE.

NATIONAL MARKETING PLAN.

PLEBISCITE OF FARMERS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 4. An interesting statement relating to the organisation of tho bobby calf trade was made by the Minister of Finance (Hon. W. Nash) to-niglit. The Minister stated: “Arising out of a resolution passed at tho recent Dominion conference of the Now Zealand Dairy Board, I convened a meeting of representatives of the Government, Dairy Board, Farmers’ Union and tho Co-operative Pig Marketing Association to consider and recommend to me a plan for the better organisation of the bobby calf trade. I informed the committee that before submitting any plan to Cabinet for consideration I would require to be satisfied that the opinion of tho dairying industry was substantially in favour of its adoption. Tho committee advised me that though in tho past a competitive system had led to prices being paid that were sometimes in excess of the real value of the product, this consideration was outweighed by the advantages of a more orderly system that would return to the farmers the true market value and would effect considerable savings in transport and other costs. The committee, at the conclusion of its discussions, recommended a plan as follows: “The New Zealand Dairy Board to be empowered to organise a national co-operative system of local pools for tho collection and disposal of hobby calves and all hobby calf products. The powers which would be required are to define the local pool areas; to organise management committees in tho pool areas; to supervise and control tho operations of the pool committees, arranging collection and transport services and in the disposal of calves and all calf-products within the individual pool areas; to recommend the making of such levies as may be required to meet the costs of administering the plan; to have such other powers as mav be necessary to give full effect to the plan. “The committee considered that if this plan were adopted, the pool committees would act in their own districts as agents of the hoard and would assume full responsibility for the operations of their pools. The Dairy Board would, in practice, intervene only if a condition of emergency arose when it would be in a. position to assume full control of tho operations of any pool. “If the. plan is endorsed hv the dairying industry and approved by Cabinet, the method hv which the necessary authority would be vested in the Dairy Board would he by delegation of powers under the Primary Products Marketing Act, 1936. MEETINGS OF DAIRYMEN.

“In writing to dairy factories on the subject,” Mr Nash said, “I would appreciate it if they would submit the contents of this letter for urgent consideration at a special meeting or meetings of suppliers of each company. The opinion of the meeting or meetings should be taken on a motion to adopt the resolution attached, and the result should be conveyed to me with a statement of numbers voting for and against, under a certificate of the chairman of the meeting. All meetings should be called at once so as to enable action to be taken immediately The views of the industry are known. In any case the resolution and details of tho voting should reach me not later than March 31.” In the event of it being found to he impossible to arrange for the holding of meetings which all suppliers can conveniently attend, it will be sufficient, said Mr Nash, if each company send to -its suppliers a ballot paper in terms of the attached resolution and certify to him over the signature of the chairman and secretary, the result of the voting. Accompanying the letter from the Minister is a ballot paper conveying the text of the resolution on which suppliers have been asked to vote. The Minister said that the decision of the farmers was required with some urgency. If the voting is in favour of the propsal the Dairy Board would immediately require to complete its organisation to enable the plan to operate during the coming season.