Remove Restrictions On Suppliers Of Cream

Northern Advocate, 6 July 1945, Page 2

Remove Restrictions On Suppliers Of Cream

(p.A.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Minister for Agricultural (Hon. B. Roberts) announced last night that after consultation with the New Zealand Dairy Board it had been decided to amend the Dairy Supply Control Order, 1942, in the direction of removing restrictions on suppliers of cream, with the exception of those governing transfer from butter to cheese manufacture. Mr Roberts said every endeavour was being made to ease controls imposed by war conditions directing primary production into various channels. It had been possible io ease the transport regulations governing the collection of milk and cream, but as the present ratio of butter to cheese was in line with United Kingdom requirements the order could not be revoked in its entirety.

The present amendment, however, would allow cream suppliers to change from factories in accordance with the pre-war dairy regulations, governed only by zoning orders, imposed under the direction of the Executive Commission of Agriculture. This variation meant that while it was not permissible for a producer who supplied a butter factory during 1944-45 to change to supplying milk to a cheese factory, suppliers to cheese factories could, if they wished change to butter factories. This was in accordance with a resolution passed of ihe recent conference of the National Dairy Association. The Minister said that any changes must be made by the end of July in the North Island and by the end of August in the South Island, or on the first delivery made at any subsequent date.