CHEESE FACTORY MANAGERS

Southland Times, Issue 23945, 11 October 1939, Page 3

CHEESE FACTORY MANAGERS

GRADING POSITION TO BE DISCUSSED A request for the opinion of cheese factory managers on the shrinkage in the percentage of finest cheese graded in a letter from the Southland provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union was read at a meeting of the Southland and Otago Cheese Factory Managers’ Union. It was decided to hold the matter over for a future meeting, when the position will be fully reviewed.

The president, Mr William McKeown, presided over a good attendance of members. A letter was received from the Conciliation Commissioner stating that the complete agreement arrived at between the Southland and Otago Managers’ Union and the dairy companies had been filed with the clerk of awards at Dunedin for the purpose of having it made into an award for the coming season.

The Dairy Factory Managers’ Registration Board acknowledged receipt of advice that Mr W. C. Bagrie had been reappointed as representative of the Southland and Otago Union on' the Dairy Factory Managers’ Registration Board. 0 The chairman reported that he had been in touch with the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association about prizes to be awarded for competitions in the cheese section of the forthcoming Royal Show, and he had made, the promise of a donation from the union. It was decided to give a suitable silver cup.

A. complaint was made by the former manager of an Eastern District dairy factory that he had not received full payment of his salary for the whole year after the season had closed. The secretary stated that it had always been customary to pay a full year's salary when the output for the whole of the season had been completed. The matter was left in the hands of the secretary. Mr M. R. Gale, former manager of the Omimi dairy factory, wrote stating that he had been appointed manager of the Rai Valley dairy factory, Marlborough, and asking for a transfer to the managers’ union in that district. The request was grarited and Mr Gale was thanked for his services in the past. It was decided to hold a special meeting for the purpose of changing the name of the union from the Southland and Otago Cheese Factory Managers’ Industrial Union of Worker's to the Otago and Southland Cheese and Butter Factory Managers’ Industrial Union of Workers, to provide for the extension of the award to cover the butter factory managers in the Otago and Southland Industrial District.