DAIRY PRODUCE BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20385, 17 April 1928, Page 11

DAIRY PRODUCE BOARD.

TERM OF THREE MEMBERS EXPIRES. ELECTION TO BE HELD IN JUNE. (Special to Daily Times.} WELLINGTON, April 16. Considerable interest centres in the fact that three producers' representatives on the New -Zealand Dairy Produce Export Control Board will retire on June 30, and an election will be necesary to nil the vacancies thus created. The members due to retire are Mr W. Grounds (chairman of the board), Mr D. Fulton, and Mr W. Bryant (representatives of wards 1, 2, and 8 respectively). These wards embrace the following counNo. I.—-Mongonui, Whangaroa, Hokianga, Bay of Islands, Whangarei, Hobson,. Otamatea, Rodney, Waitemata, Great Barrier Island, Eden, Manukau, and FranklinNo. 2. —The outer boundaries of the Counties of Raglan, Waipa, Kawhia, Otorohanga, Waitomo, Ohura, Taumarunui, Kaitieka, Matamata, including all boroughs „ t and town districts situated within t*ie outer boundaries of such counties, and so much of the Borough of Hamilton as lies between the Waikato River and the boundary of the Waipa County. No. B.—AshWrton, Geraldine, Mackenzie, Levels, Waimate, Waitaki, Maniototq r Waihemo, Waikouaiti, Taieri, Peninsula, Bruce, Tuapeka, Vincent, and Clutha. The regulations under the Dairy Prodvce, Export Control Act, 1923, provide th it f the rolls of producers entitled to vote at f the election shall be compiled from lists * of suppliers of milk or cream to factories as at May 1, sent in by secretaries or owners of companies manufacturing dairy produce for export. Separate lists must .. bi> furnished with respect to each factory owned by a- dairy company. As the Da- ry Produce Export Control Amendment Act, 1926, provides that the votes of the sup- „ pliers of each factory shall be recorder! separately, in some instances it may'hap- * pen that a company may own factoriftf in two different wards. In such a, cateit is only, necessary for the company to* supply rolls of suppliers of factories actually situated in the ward. in which an •election is being held. Each member of a partnership firm may have his name , placed on the list. . I Nominations of candidates to 511 Ihe [ vacancies close on May 20 with the re- -- I turning officer, Mr W. Cv Robinson, of Iha - Department of Agriculture, and the elecI tion, will take place at mid-dav on June 15;. , .