DAIRY INDUSTRY BILL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 5

DAIRY INDUSTRY BILL

IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS (From Our Parliamentary Correspondent ) WE IRVINGTON, This Day. Many features of interest are contained hr (lie Dairy Industry Amendment Bill read a first time in the House yesterday. Every owner of a butter factory or clr ease factory, is to forward, not later than two months after the close of each financial year to suppliers, a statement certified as correct by a jregistered accountant, showing:— I (a) Weight of butter (correct to four (places decimals) made from each pound |butter' fat used for the manufacture Jof butter; and (h) The percentage which the weight of salted butter manufactured, bears to the total weight, of butter manufactured ; and (e) Tire weight of cheese (correct to two places of decimals), made from each pound of batter fat used for the raanuj fact are of cheese. | The close of the financial year is to be determined by the close of the season. but must not be later than 3lst August. Within six months after receipt of statement, a supplier may apply to (ho Minister' of Agriculture for an independent investigation, whereupon the Minister, on security being lodged, may request the audit office to examine the books and accounts of the factory. The cost of investigation is to be borne by the applicant unless an error of more (Iran one half per cent, is discovered, when the cost will fall on the owner of ■the factory.

It is also provided by the Bill that n person shall he liable to a penalty if be sends to the grading store any cheese of which the water free substance consists of less than 50 per cent, of fats, wholly derived from milk, or exports, nr attempts to export any such cheese.