DAIRY EXPORTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17142, 18 September 1926, Page 8

DAIRY EXPORTS

AUTHORITY FOR SHIPMENT. REQUEST NOT COMPLIED WITH A reminder to dairy companies that they must give the Dairy Control Board authority to ship produce on their i.ehalf is given in the latest circular issued by the board.

The circular states that a great many dairy companies have not given the required instructions, and it is pointed out that the board has no authority to ship any produce unless authorised by the dairy companies. The responsibility of the hoard actually commences when the produce is placed on board steamer. The failure to give the necessary authority to ship is considered by Mr. W. Goodfellow, a member of the Control Hoard, to be clue, not to antagonism to compulsory control, hut to oversight on the part of (lie companies concerned. Until the board received instructions to shij) the produce, it did not know whether the butter and cheese in store was intended for local consumption or whether it was to be sent to a controlled or uncontrolled market. Mr. Goodfellow added that lie'did not think any factory would withhold the authority to the hoard as, by so doing, it would not ho able to place its produce «u the English market. The position was that no produce could he sent to England from New Zealand without the authority of the board, while the board could not ship without the authority of the companies. All the companies had'been advised of the procedure, and it was probable the hitch, if it could be called that, was only on© of the minor difficulties incidental to the inception of a scheme of such magnitude as compulsory control.