SOUTH ISLAND DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 100, 17 June 1911, Page 6

SOUTH ISLAND DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, June 16. The annual mooting of the South ashpit! Dairy Association was held toiay, Air. oolm Gray (Alataura) p remitting. The balance-sheet showed that die revenue for tiie year was £907 19s Xl, 'and the expenditure £7lO 9s 2d, saving a qrodif balance of £167 10a In 'moving the adoption of the annual report, tiie chairman said the motion sale proposal had been tried, nit only four factories responded, there was a meeting in Invercargill, ilit tlio figu res wore so far apart and 0 high tmit there was no cnanco of. Icing business. A fair number of the factories stuck to the agents, but no,t mhiciontly to give any control to the market. Regarding tlio proposal to .cv iso the appointments of agents in ho said that for some time past the directors had intended to ook into the position, and urged con-v-ehtration of pi educe at the New Zealand end, which he believed would lie 1 very good thing for the factories. Hie dairying industry was a very large mb, and he believed that eventually .t would outpace the frozen mutton industry. • The motion was seconded by- Mr. Hunter (Edendalc), and carried. it was decided by a majority that the board of..management lie requested.! to take the necessary steps to injorporato in tlio articles of the association a clause to tlio effect that the entire cheese output of tiie factories of all members bo handled exclusively by- the association. ft war; also resolved that the committee revise the appointment of agents in London and make a re-se-lection. The mover, Mr. Campbell (Wynclham) said one reason why somefactories did not sell through the association was that they were not satisfied with their agent!-.. Air. Lnmsden (Drummond) said the committee intended to revise the list, and might appoint eight or ten agents •a London. The question of holding sales by aid hoi was left in the hands of the executive, It was decided to urge on the ■Minister of Agriculture tiie. necessity' hr legislating to prevent the sale of lisoasod stock as dairy stock] The mover said lie referred specially to •o\vs affected by such diseases as contagions mammitis and contagions all'll tion. The retiring directors—Messrs. Hunter, Bolt, and Baker—were reelected. ,