PURE MILK.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144197, 13 September 1913, Page 7

PURE MILK.

IMPORTANT MOVEMENT IN TARANAKI Mr. Newton King, of Taranaki, has (Hie Otago Daily Times says) forwarded to Mr. J. R. Scott, secretary of the South Island Dairy Association, a copy of an agreement which he has had carried into effect with a section of factories, extending from Pihama to New Plymouth, via Opunako. Mr. King states that tho agreement might be made general. It reads;— “In pursuance of the agreement arrived at by a meeting of delegates of co-operative dairy companies, and with a view to improving the quality of the milk delivered to tho factories iu the district, and to preclude the moving of suppliers from one factory to another during the currency of any season, it is mutually agreed as follows: (1) For the purposes of this agreement, the annual 'season’ shall be deemed to be the period commencing at tho Ist day ov August in ono year and continuing until tho next succeeding 31st day of May. (2) The companies parties hereto will, at all times, refuse to accept milk during the currency of any season from any supplier who has, during such season, supplied milk to any company, and has had his milk refused by such company by reason ot being unfit for tho manufacture or firs-t-ciass butter or cheese, or wishes to change to any other company lor other reason, and will refuse to allot shares to such supplier until tho completion of such teason except as proviued in clause 3 hereof. (3) Any company may allot shares to, and accept milk from any supplier changing his residence during any season to a -rcsidenco closer to a iactery or creamery of such factory. (.4) This agreement to be continuous and remain in force from season to season as between the respective companies, except that any company can, by written notice to the other companies in the month of Juno in any year, withdraw as at that date.”

Referring to tho circular, Mr. Scott says ho considers Mr. King’s suggestion, that tho agreement should bo generally adopted all over New Zealand, might ba favourably considered by factories in t-bo interests of a purer milk supply. Mr. Scott states that there has not been much trouble yet in the South Island in the matter of rejected milk going to other factories, but that it would bo well to guard against such a possibility. In some parts of the North Island, ho continued, groat trouble had been caused by the want of such an agreement. Mr. Scott then said:—“Mr. King is undoubtedly the pioneer of tho dairy industry in Taranaki. The erection of his Crown factories gave Taranaki a rapid and effective start in tho dairy industry, ami tho names of. Messrs. King, J. C. George, and Richard Cook will always bo held in honour by dairymen all over New Zealand. They boldly put lots of money into a then now industry, and when tho time cams that settlers desired to have thoir own factories the ‘trinity,’ as these three gentlemen were called, met them generously and sold them tho factories and retired gradually from the field, leaving thorn to the co-oporativo companies te further develop. Mr. King, however, has never coasod to take a great interest in tho dairy industry. Ho is tho leading business man in Taranaki, a man of great ability, and his opinion on any subject connected with tho dairy industry is of great value. When, in tie earlier days, our association was tho solo association in Now Zealand, Mr. King was ono of its first directors.”