NATIONAL DAIRY ASSN.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11845, 3 June 1924, Page 11

NATIONAL DAIRY ASSN.

REMITS OF INTEREST TO FARMERS. MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION. The number of remits sent forward for the annual conference of the National Dairy Association of New Zealand, Did., which is to be held at Auckland on June 24th, include: “That as the Dairy Control Board’s levy is now in operation, the annual subscription by the dairy companies should be dispensed with, and any work done by the National Dairy Association should be paid ifor out of the Control Board’s levies. This remit to be a recommendation to the directors of the National Dairy Association.” Mr T. Bassett will move: “That the Dairy Control Act should make provision for the election of Dairy Council of 30 members—-20 North Island, 10 South Island—elected by the dairy factory directorates in each provincial or sub-provincial district upon a butterfat production hasia, who would be available as a wider representation of the industry, for consultation with the Control Board upon any matter for which the board may choose to call them into conference.” The Whangarei Dairy Company sends the following: “That the matter of depreciation taken on uaotory plant and. equipment be brought under the notice of the Commissioner of Taxes, with a view to having a uniform and equitable scale allowed in the income tax return.”

“That this conference appreciates the necessity of farm dairy instruction work being continued and extended, and considers, in view of prospective compulsory, marketing control, that this work increasingly assumes national importance as distinct from that of individual companies; and whereas at the present time certain appoint-' ments of dairy farm instructors holding departmental status receive a Government subsidy, whilst other similar official appointments do not, it is the opinion of this conference that the whole position should be reviewed by the Government and more equitable conditions of appointment laid down,” will also be discussed.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company has forwarded the following remit: “That the New Zealand Government introduce the necessary legislation to making the grading of cream compulsory, and that the Department of Agriculture undertake this work. Further, the second grade to he paid for at the rate of at least one penny per pound butter-fat lees than first grade cream.” The following is sent forward by the Eairanga Dairy Company for consideration : “That seeing that the Dairy Control Board has been elected and will have full control of all levies, shipping, etc., of all export dairy produce, no useful purpose can be served by the continuance in office of the National Dairy Association, but should the dairy companies concerned desire its continuance in office as a commercial concern a vote be taken by the dairy companies concerned.”