EXTRA PAYMENT FOR CHEESE

Southland Times, Issue 24546, 22 September 1941, Page 4

EXTRA PAYMENT FOR CHEESE

MEETING ADDITIONAL COSTS CHANGE-OVER FROM BUTTER (Special) WELLINGTON, Sept. 21. Further details of the special account to be created with the Marketing Department from the proceeds of the extra 5/9 sterling per cwt. to be paid for exported cheese for the 1941-42 season were revealed today by the Minister of Marketing (the Hon. J. G. Barclay). The Minister said it was intended that a special committee representative of both the Government and the industry should be set up to recommend to the Government the extent of dairy factory and suppliers’ costs arising from the change-over to cheese which could fairly be regarded as a charge on the special account. Tire Government had last year in the initial stages of the change-over given an undertaking that it would assume responsibility for these costs, and that undertaking had been given before there was any recognition of these costs on the part of the United Kingdom Government. Dairy farmers and representatives of butter and cheese companies could therefore be assured that the Government, after consideration of the recommendations of the committee, would make payments from the account towards the extra costs which the committee was to examine. These payments would, in effect, constitute a first charge on the account.