DAIRY PRODUCE GRADING

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3803, 2 September 1936, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE GRADING

COMPLAINT AGAINST SYSTEM. The method of grading dairy produce was introduced by Mr J. E. Leeson (Morrinsville) at the meeting of Waikato dairy company directors in Hamilton on Monday. Mr Leeson read a letter from the chief Government grader, Auckland, advising his company that the gradings of each consignment of butter would be averaged. Sometimes, said Mr Leeson, the different churnings comprising one consignment merited varying grades, and when these were averaged the result represented a considerable loss to the company. Mr C. J. Parlane (New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd.) said under the old system when butter was paid for according to the quality it was graded in England the point at issue did not matter much, but now, when an arbitrary price was fixed according to the store grading in New Zeaalnd, the averaging of the gradings of each consignment was a most unsatisfactory system. On Mr Leeson’s motion it was resolved: “That, in order that justice might be done to dairy companies under the new split grading system, the present grading method should be reorganised so as to provide that each churning of butter and each vat of cheese is graded separately with its respective grades for payment under the guaranteed price scheme.”