NATIONAL DAIRY CONFERENCE

Southland Times, Issue 22921, 20 June 1936, Page 8

NATIONAL DAIRY CONFERENCE

REMITS CARRIED. (United Press Association.) Hastings, June 19. The National Dairy Conference was concluded at Hastings to-day. The session dealt with remits concerning uniforms, payout and the compensating price for produce and addresses were given by Dr. H. R. Whitehead on the work of the Dairy Research Institute and by Colonel S. J. E. Closey, M.C., V.D., Levin. The latter dealt with the question of the compensating price and the conference accepted a suggestion by the speaker to adopt the principle embodied in a remit, agreeing that it was an important point. It was decided that the next conference be at Hamilton.

The conference passed the following resolution: “That it be a recommendation from the conference that dairy suppliers confer with each other in their respective districts with the object of determining a uniform advance payment and a uniform amount to be retained to supplement suppliers during the winter months.” The Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company Limited, moved the following remit, which was carried: “That the only equitable .basis of payment for primary produce is to pay to the producers a compensatory price to cover the difference between the price level in the country in which his goods are marketed as compared with the price level in the country in which his goods are produced.”