FARM DAIRY INSTRUCTOR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19743, 23 September 1938, Page 13

FARM DAIRY INSTRUCTOR

NATIONAL SERVICE REGULATIONS ISSUED (Per Pruss Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. By the Farm Dairy Instruction Regulations 1938, which were issued with the Gazette last night, the service of farm dairy instruction afforded by the farm dairy instructors on the staff of the Department of Agriculture to suppliers to dairy factories for the purpose of improving and maintaining the quality of the raw product supplied for the manufacture of dairy produce, is extended to include all suppliers of dairy factories throughout the Dominion. Hitherto, such instruction was afforded to a limited number of suppliers on a voluntary basis by a special arrangement for the payment of portion of the cost of such service made between the department and the owners, of dairy factories whose suppliers were given the desired instruction. The regulations are designed to ensure that not more than three-fifths of the annual cost of the farm dairy instruction will be borne by the dairy industry and the balance by the Government. Portion of the cost to be borne by the industry is to be defrayed by way of levies imposed on the owners of dairy factories, partly on a butterfat basis and partly on a suppliers' basis. The rate of the butterfat levy is fixed at 9.998 d per lb. and that on the suppliers' basis at 4s a supplier. The annual cost of farm dairy instruction shall be determined by the Minister of Agriculture and shall include an allowance for the cost of direct and indirect administrative supervision of field officers actually engaged. Where the total amount of the levies receivable in any financial year exceeds three-fifths of the cost of such instruction, the Minister may direct that such a reduction shall be made in the rate of the butterfat levy as will be just and equitable, or direct that the surplus for any year shall be accumulated for a like adjustment at the end of two or more years.