GRADING CREAM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 11

GRADING CREAM

REGULATIONS TOO STRICT DEPUTATION TO MINISTER Press Association. HASTIXGS. To-da> On his arrival from the Smedley Estate, the Hon. O. J. Hawken, Minister of Agriculture, received a deputation from fruitgrowers who, after requesting improvements relating t«» railway transport of fruit, complained that the importation of Canadian and American apples during October and November was detrimental to the marketing of late, cool-stored local fruit. The Minister promised to inform the Minister of Customs of the position and he also promised that the department’s investigations regarding flesh 'collapse in apples during coolstorago would continue until finality was reached. Replying to a dairy factory deputation, which contended that the regulation of three grades of cream caused frietion among dairy farmers and who asked that “finest" should be merged into “first.” the Minister said that as a result of the present regulations the quality through the Dominion had improved. The only way to educate the farmer was by strictness of grading and the department did not want the improved standard to slip back. This question would be thrashed out at the annual Dairy Conference, which would express the opinion of the industry as a whole. The Minister was accompanied l»y Mrs. Hawken and l)r. Reakes. ’Tins morning he motored to Dannevirke, afterwards proceeding to Wellington.