DAIRY FACTORY SUPPLIES

Southland Times, Issue 24861, 29 September 1942, Page 3

DAIRY FACTORY SUPPLIES

Zoning Scheme Under Consideration With a view to zoning milk and cream supplies for dairy factories, coordinating present, collecting services, and in other ways ensuring that a minimum number of motor vehicles is used, a special sub-committee of the Invercargill District Oil Fuel and Tyre Rationing Committee is to make inquiries. It is stated that inspections made at factories recently showed that at least 50 per cent, of the vehicles used by farmers would require new tyres in the near future. Such a heavy demand, it is claimed, could not possibly be met, and so serious difficulties will arise eventually unless the number of vehicles in use is reduced immediately. Mr J. Lindsay, district oil fuel controller, expressed the hope that chairmen, directors, managers and suppliers to dairy factories would willingly co-operate with the sub-committee in formulating schemes to ensure that the least number of vehicles was used during the present season and thereby assist the war effort by a greater conservation of both ’tyres and oil fuel. In some cases, the diversion of supplies from one factory to another might be necessary, Mr Lindsay said. Farmers could help by carrying one another’s output to the utmost of their vehicle capacity, and it might also be possible to utilize existing transport operators to a greater extent if they travelled over fixed routes for dairy factory collection purposes.