DAIRY ZONING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23332, 26 October 1937, Page 12

DAIRY ZONING

OPERATIONS OF FACTORIES COMMITTEE SETS BOUNDARIES Before the Executive Commission of Agriculture left Temuka last week-end a complete zoning of the area of butter factories operating in the territory between the Rakaia River and Dunedin was effected, the new arrangement to come into force on December 1. Sir Francis Frazer and Mr D. Jones comprised the commission and the companies represented were the Ashburton, Waimate and the Taieri and Peninsula. The discussion was taken in committee, and at the conclusion the commission stated that had been decided that a boundary would be fixed between the areas to be traversed by the Ashburton and the Taieri and Peninsula Companies and that the Waimate Company would be permitted to operate in parts of the areas assigned to the two larger concerns. This would mean that the Waimate Company, instead of having to compete with both the Taieri and Peninsula and the Ashburton Companies in parts of the area in which it now operated, would in future have the competition of only one’company over the whole of its territory. The boundary between the Taieri and Peninsula and the Ashburton Companies would be the main Makikihi road from the sea to the terminus of the northern branch of the main Makikihi road. Waimate’s area would be that between the Opihi River in the north and Gemell’s road, about seven or eight miles south of Oamaru. The i value of the supplies transferred'between the Ashburton and the Taieri and Peninsula Companies was almost exactly equal, and in the allocation of areas the commission stated that due regard had been taken to allow for suitable routes being arranged and for the equalising of supplies. At the meeting there was an attendance of 27 dairy factory directors. Mr S. R. Muff, chairman of directors of the Orari Company, acted as spokesman.