DAIRY DELEGATES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 9

DAIRY DELEGATES

DOMINION CONFERENCE WHAT .QUALIFICATIONS? (lISBORNE APPOINTMENT At the ward dairy conference hi Gisborne on Saturday. Mr. J. 11. Sunderland. secretary of the' Kia Ova Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, was elected unopposed to represent' the district at the Dominion conference held by ilie Dairy Board. The appointment of Mr. Sunderland was preceded by some discussion on the method of representation' at the Dominion conferences and also on the qualification of the delegates. Mr. B. I!-- Renner, chairman of directors of the Okitu Co-operative Dairy Compay, Limited., moved that the meeting disagree with the principle of electing delegates to the Dominion.conference on a tontuige basis, and that each factory should be allowed to send a delegate at its own discretion. METHOD OF REPRESENTATION Mr. T. C. Brash, secretary of the Dairy Hoard., explained the method of representation, and said that formerly as many as SCO delegates had attended Dominion conferences, and these meetings were unsatisfactory so far as getting business done. It was therefore agreed to allow only certain representatives from each district attend the conferences, the elections to take place on a tonnage basis.

Five such representatives, he added, were elected at Whangarci, at Morrinsville, two at Whakatane, and one in Gisborne for the No. 1 ward, which Mr. Murdoch represented. Votes which factories of the Gisborne, Coast and Wairoa districts were eligible to cast were as follows, one vote being given for eaeli ton : Factory Votes Ngatiporou 721 Tolaga Bay 289 Kia Ora ' 1722 Okitu 486 N'uhaka ... 25* Wairoa 782 •For a cheese -factory, one vote is given for each two tons of cheese. Mr. 11. D. deLautour, Wairoa, urged that each factory should be given one vote. Mr. A. J. Murdoch, chairman of the Dairy Board, replied that that would require an amendment to the Act. QUALIFICATION OF DELEGATES Mr. deLautour said thai while he was satisfied with the past representation of the district by Mr. Sunderland, he would support the motion on the grounds that each factory should have its own voice at the conference. The motion, being put, was Inst. Mr. deLautour then moved that Mr. Sunderland should be appointed to represent the Gisborne district. Mr. C. Cooper asked if Mr. Sunderland was eligible. Was he a producer? Mr. Murdoch said that as n secretary Mr. Sunderland was not a pro durer, but he undertsood that <Mr. Sunderland was trustee for about fiOf) cows for suppliers. There were no regulations governing the position. Mr. Sunderland said that the last ,

National Dairy Association ruled tha so long as a delegate was appointee by the producers no other cjualifieatioi was necessary. Mr. J. P. Guthrie, Tolaga Bay, thei seconded Mr. Sunderland's noinina (ion. There were no further nomination* and Mr. Sunderland was declare elected.