NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 158, 25 July 1901, Page 3

NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL MKKTING. FIB PBSSB ASSOCIATION. Palhxbstom Noeth, July 24. The annual meeting of tbe National Dairy Association commenced to-day. The President, speaking upon the report and balance-sheet, said tbe Association's affairs were in a flourishing! condition. The membership was now' 58, sb against 48 last year. The turnover for the previous twelve months amounted to £6,000, whereas for the year just ended it totalled about £30,000, • Messrs Harknras, Dive, and Foreman were re-elected directors.

Herniations' were carried the Association take into its earliest cenmderation the advisibleness of preparing * contract on a basis equitable to shipper ard buyer; that the Govenament be urged to enforce tbe Dairy Industry Act and its regulations r< specting short weight of butter and cheese, Government weights to be accepted as final between producer, consignee, and buyer; that the Minister for Railways be asked to reduce freights on dairy salt to the same rate as charged for conveyance of salt for bacon factories; that the Minister for Rail- . ways be asked to apply to the carnage of daiiy prod ace to a port of export the principle now in force in connection with charges on fruit and cream, and In fulfilment of his assurance that uniform rates for specific distances would be adopted by the Railway Department. The Secretary mentioned that the pla;s and specifications were being prepared for the erection of fwez ng wot feat Wellington, at an estimated cost of £13,000. In the aftercoon resolutiors were passed that the interests of the Association, and ef producers would be furthered by controlling the fre zing storage at Wellingtrß; that a meeting of delegates be held' at a future date to consider the advisablenes) of erectieg freezing works at Wellington in connection with the dairy industry. A long discos*ion took place on the quFg-ien of shortage of weight in export better, and it was suggested tbat the Government be asked to have the weight taken when the butter was graded, and certificates weight, as ef quality, issued to producers. A motion that the Government be asked to increase the subsidy granted in connection with storage of butter to3£d was negatived, and an amendment that the executive take no action in tbe matter was carried. It was decided that the question of taxation of Co-operative Companies, profits ba left to the executive of the Association tS deal with. A letter wis read from the Wellington Society for prevention of cruelly to animals protesting agaicst the practice of dehorning. An animated discussion took place, tbe majority of spe»k<rs considering the practice humane, and in tbe brat interests of cat:le and a resolution to that effect was passed. Replying to a question, the Piesident itite 1 endew urs would be made to hold meetings of farmers a- various centres to discuss important qwstioos affecting the industry. During the afternoon a paper wis read by Mr. Wilkie, Government V eterinarian, on " Tfeeimprovemeat in breei of dairy cows."