DAIRY INDUSTRY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19668, 9 December 1933, Page 8

DAIRY INDUSTRY

MORE EFFECTIVE CONTROL NEW REGULATIONS TO BE ISSUED By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, December 8. More effective control of the dairy industry by the issue of regulations is proposed by the Dairy Industry Amendment Bill. Under the Bill the Government can make regulations governing the registration of persons competent to be employed as dairy factory managers with power to set up a registration board for the purpose and giving any person aggrieved by any decision of the Board in relation to registration the right of appeal to a Magistrate and two assessors, one appointed by the appellant and one by the Minister of Agriculture or his nominee, A further clause protects persons already employed as dairy factory managers by authorising their registration without further evidence of their qualifications. Provision is contained in the Bill for regulating the supply of milk or cream to dairy factories by restricting the transfer of supply from one dairy factory to another during the same season. In May last a regulation was made restricting the transfer of the supply of milk or cream during the same manufacturing season except with the consent of the owner of the factory to whom the milk or cream was being supplied. The regulation was the subject of consideration by the Court of Appeal in October last, when the Court unanimously declared the regulation to be ultra vires and void. As it is considered that the unrestricted right of a supplier to transfer his supply militates against the efficient operation of the grading provisions of the regulations as to milk or cream which are designed for the sole purpose of improving the general quality of the dairy produce manufactured, there is a clause in the Bill conferring all the necessary powers to reimpose the substance of the invalid regulation at the same time giving the supplier the right of appeal to a Magistrate from the operation of any such regulation on the grounds of hardship.

Authority is given to issue regulations to enable dairy companies to charge a commission not exceeding 2i per cent on all assignments or orders by a supplier on his milk or cream cheques. For some time past legislative authority has been sought by the Industry for making a charge for the execution of such orders. It has been represented that the handling of orders entails considerable work for dairy companies, especially where some suppliers issue orders five or six deep against moneys due to them.