MORE REGULATIONS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3813, 25 September 1936, Page 7

MORE REGULATIONS

AREAS FOR CREAM SUPPLIES. COMMISSION PLANS TO PREVENT OVERLAPPING. Regulations just issued are of importance to the dairy industry, for they confer power on the Executive Commission of Agriculture to carry into effect certain recommendations of the 1934 Dairy Industry Commission relating to the elimination of overlapping in the collection of cream supplies. The latter commission recommended that this should be done by the zoning of suppliers, by defining certain, routes, by arrdfiging for the amalgamation of companies and by encouraging the making of boundary agreements between companies. The cancellation of cream receiving depots was also recommended by the commission. in certain circumstances. Adjustments of this nature are to be made as far as possible by the Executive Commission of Agriculture by voluntary negotiation with the dairy factory companies concerned. CREAM RECEIVING DEPOTS. If the Executive Commission is satisfied after full investigation that creameries in any particular locality are adequate and suitable for the manufacture into butter of all the cream produced in that locality, it may direct that from a specified date al) such cream should be weighed, graded and tested only at the creamery wherein the cream is to be manu factured. The registration and license of all cream receiving depots in the locality will then be cancelled. Upon cancellation it will be unlawful for any person to receive or accept at any such depot cream intended for manufacture into butter. The commission is empowered to define and assign to the owner of a specified creamery an area or route from or along which cream produced may be collected or received by such owner for manufacture into butter. It may assign any such area or route or any portion of it to the owners of two or more creameries, subject to such conditions as the commission may consider reasonable. WHOLE MILK SUPPLIES. The commission is similarly empowered to define and assign any area from which all whole milk may be delivered to and accepted by a manufacturing dairy for any process ot manufacture other than treatment for sale for human consumption as liquid milk or cream. For some time past there has been an arrangement whereby the Director of the Dairy Division of the Deparament of Agriculture declines to issue a certificate of registration or license in respect of premises to be used as a manufacturing dairy or a dairy factory without the written consent of the commission. A clause in the regulations gives legal effect to this arrangement. Il the exercise by the commission of the power to define areas and routes results in a co-operative dairy company not being permitted to continue to receive milk or cream from any shareholder supplier, the company. at the request of the supplier, must, unless the commission otherwise directs, resume all shares held by him to the number necessary to qualify for the milk or cream supplied during the last season of supply and pay the supplier the amount of capital paid on such shares. ADVANCES MADE TO SUPPLIERS. Provision is made to meet cases ■.■ there moneys have been advanced to any supplier by the owner of a manufacturing dairy on terms of repayment with interest by way of deduc tions from moneys due for milk or cream supplied. If by reason of any determination of the commission the milk or cream from such a supplier must be delivered to another manufacturing dairy then the latter owner, if he does not contract with the formet owner for an assignment of the light to receive payment of such advance and interest thereon, must make such deductions as may be agreed upon by the parties from the monies payable by the latter owner to the supplier and pay these to the former owner. In the event of any dispute the amount ot the deductions to be made is to be settled by arbitration. The commission may fix and award reasonable compensation to the owner of any manufacturing dairy that it considers will be prejudicially affected by an adjustment. It may specify the owner or owners of the manufacturing dairy or dairies that it considers will be benefited thereby and deter mine by whom the amount so awarded must be paid.