CHANGING TO CHEESE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 225, 21 August 1940, Page 10

CHANGING TO CHEESE.

COMPANY CHAIRMAN’S VIEW. “To the cheese companies of this. district we are losing 24 suppliers, and thus in the coming year we will expect our production, to bo down by approxi matcly 230 tons of butter,'’ said AlrW.* C. Gloyn, chairman of the Rongotea Dairy Company, at the annual meeting at Rongotea yesterday, “These suppliers are not averse to having to supply cheese factories in the drive for the required increase of- 15,000 to 20,000 tons of cheese, but. like all other farmers in the Dominion, they feci —and we agree with them-—that there should be a levy made over the whole of the industry to compensate the individual some* what for tho extra expense lie is put to in the change, in most cases up to 100 and in some even as high as £2OO. Then there is the loss to every butler factory by increased costs per pound of butterfat, by reason of the loss of this supply. While it might bo said that it is a war measure and therefore we should all show patriotism by bearing the expense ourselves, a great number of tho butter factories in the Dominion are not losing even one supplier to cheese. We therefore consider that they, in turn, should show their patriotism by helping their fellows who happen to own a farm close to a cheese factory, and that it is the duty of the Government to instruct the Dairy Board to make a grant frdm a special levy raised for that purpose.” Reference , was mado to the change to cheese by _ some suppliers, and the chairman said that tho farmers had no chance of securing assistance from the Consolidated Fund. As soon as there was any suggestion that the workers (as contributors to the Consolidated Fund) should contribute the Government would refuse to act.

Mr P. Dixon moved that "the Dairy Board should bear the increased costs in the changing over to supply cheese factories. ;\\ hen the Executive Commission of Agriculture was in this district in 1935 and the company bought out the Makowhai cheese factory it was slated that if increased cheese production weio ever required the Taranaki area could supply the extra quantity. Now, all districts were being asked to supply extra cheese. The motion was seconded by Mr N. L. Remnant and carried.