DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8, 30 April 1914, Page 3

DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS

CONFERENCE AT HAWERA. Hawera, April 29. An important meeting of representatives of dairy companies of the North Island was held at Hawera today to consider the question of companies taking joint action to secure better marketing methods for thendairy produce in the markets of the world. The meeting was convened by the South Taranaki dairy companies, whose output value for dairy produce approximates £700,000 sterling for the year. Fifty-one dairy factories were represented, and Mr Jacob Marx (Mahgatoki) presided. The chairman and several speakers spoke of the present methods of handling produce,'in the Home land, and all the speakers expressed their dissatisfaction with the existing system.

.Mr Forsyth (Eltham) moved: "That this-meeting of dairy representatives of the North Island of New Zealand desire to express their dissatisfaction with the present methods of the marketing of their dairy produce, and consider that the time is now ripe for devising some improved scheme which will unite the whole of the producers and establish some plan of control calculated to secure more satisfactory results than at present obtaining." Mr Yorke (Whenuakura), seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. It was decided that the policy of Home marketing should be confined to open consignment and selling. Mr Forsyth (Eltham) proposed,

"That with a view to advancing the objects of this meeting a representative committee of North Island dairy companies be set up to draw up a practical scheme for marketing butter and cheese, and that the committee's proposal be submitted to the dairy companies of the Dominion no! later than May 31st, and that a meeting of accredited representatives of Dominion dairy companies be held at Palmerston .North on Wednesday. June 17th', to deal with the committee's report."

Mr Priest (Fketahuna) seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.

The following committee was nppointed :—.Messrs Wise (Eketahuna), Haist (Wanganui), Death (Bawera), Whit-taker (ttongotea), Moncrieff (Wairarapa), Forsyth '(Eltlnun), Marx (Maugatoki), Morton (National Dairy Association), Powdrell 'Kaupokonui), Hubbard (Thames Valley), McDonald (Tlata), Murdoch (Okaiawa), Connett (Hell Block), Geary (Melrose), Goodfellow (Wnikato), Strange 'To Aroha), Corrigan (Hawera\ Batten (Kiverdale). Mr Morton was elected chairman of the committee. A motion was agreed to that it lio a recommendation to dairy companies to pay for milk according to grade.