DAIRY PAYMENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 8

DAIRY PAYMENTS

MARGIN FOR CHEESE

l!d PER LB. BUTTER-FAT

GOVERNMENT'S DECISION

STABILISING PRODUCTION

[BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON. Monday

A margin of ljd per lb. butter-fat in favour of cheese over butter is to be fixed under the Government s guaranteed price plan for dairy products for the 1936-37 season, according to an announcement made to-night by the acting-Director of Marketing, Mr. G. A. Duncan In making payments to dairy factories for the season commencing on August 1, Mr. Duncan said, the Marketing Department would so arrange payments that the average price to be paid for cheese would be fixed at such a figure as would yield a margin of lid per lb. for butter-fat processed into cheese above the average price of butter-fat' processed into butter. Mr. Duncan stated that the Government had considered the representations made to it in regard to the fixation of the butter-fat margin of ]Jd per lb. for cheese manufacture and had agreed that it was desirable that in order to stabilise the relative production quantities of butter and cheese this margin should be recognised. it was felt that the announcement would reassure suppliers to cheese factories who might have contemplated transferring their supplies for next season to butter factories.

TYPES OF BUTTER BOXES DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS QUESTION OF SUPPLIES [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Monday The recognition of the sub-standard butter box as complying with all the requirements of the Marketing Department was announced to-night by the acting-Director or Marketing, Mr. G. A. Duncan.

The question of types of butter boxes had been considered by the department, Mr. Duncan said. With the recognition of the sub-standard box no additional payment would be made in respect of butter packed in the regulation standard box. Inquiries had been made regarding the cost of packing in the regulation sawn saranac box and it had been decided that butter packed in that box would be paid for at 3d a box less than butter packed in the regulation standard and sub-standard boxes.

It was recognised, Mr. Duncan continued, that in view of the impossibility of requiring the use of one type of box it would be fair, by a price adjustment, to place all factories 011 the same basis in order to avoid an advantage being given to those which used boxes other than the standard and sub-standard types. In order to enable the required number of boxes to be made available for next season it would be necessary for the factories to order approximately the same proportionate quantities of each type as during the season now closing. Tho Government, Mr. Duncan added, had ascertained that if orders for boxes wero placed immediately there would bo 110 need of further importations of boxes for next season. The Dairy Board had already circularised the factories on this matter. However, it was essential in order to obviate delays in deliveries that no tune should bo lost in placing orders.