ZONING QUESTION

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4050, 20 May 1938, Page 7

ZONING QUESTION

DAIRY COMPANIES MEET. COMMISSION VISITS HAMILTON. The Executive Commission of Agriculture visited Hamilton yesterday to attend a meeting of representatives of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. and the Morrinsville, Hinuera and Te Aroha-Thames Valley Dairy Companies. The meeting was called at the request of the Te Aroha Company with the object of discussing an amendment to the zoning order under which dairy companies in the Waikato and elsewhere were operating. The chairman of the commission, Sir Francis Frazer, presided. The Tt Aroha Company asked to have the right to collect cream from new suppliers on all those routes along which it was operating. At present it was allowed only to get cream from existing suppliers. Another matter discussed was the exchange oi the supply now held by the Morrinsville company in the Wharepoa area for a corresponding supply in an area nearer to Morrinsvilk. The representatives of Morrinsville, Hinuera and Te Aroha-Thames Valley companies conferred, but were unable to make any definite recommendation to the commission. It was agreed that they should meet again and endeavour to formulate proposals ' which, when agreed to, should be submitted to the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Co. Ltd. The commission indicated that it would not give any decision until the companies had had an opportunity of carrying out. the , procedure mentioned.