DAIRY PRODUCE CONTRACTS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1929, Page 16

DAIRY PRODUCE CONTRACTS

COMPLAINTS FROM THE SOUTH. REPLY BY BOARD’S CHAIRMAN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Sept. 2,. In the course of a statement in connection with the dairy produce contract controversy, Mr. W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, remarks; “The secretary of the South Island association appears to object to the board approving of the butter coir tract without consulting the individual factories. Tills is exactly what the South Island association did some years ago. They agreed with the exporters regarding a standard contract without consulting the individual factories and in face of objections from representatives of the National Dairy Association in the North Island. “The statement that the adoption of the finest grade as the basic grade in butter contracts represents aloss to the producer is, of course, farcical. Those who object to the basis of finest seem to imagine that if buyers were offering Is- 6d f.o.b. for finest butter and Is s|d for first grade, then, if the standard contract provided for first grade as the basis, the buyers would offer Is 6d for first grade and Is for finest. The secretary of the South Island Dairy Association and his friends might imagine that the exporters are rogues, but we cannot think they hold the opinion that they are fools. “Mr. Wright is making a mistake when he says that the board has approved of a, clause in the cheese contract which provides for a premium for finest grade. The hoard has not discussed, nor has it agreed to any of the clauses of the suggested standard cheese contract.