DAIRY BOARD’S REPORT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 204, 31 August 1935, Page 10

DAIRY BOARD’S REPORT

DECLINE IN LEVY. WELLINGTON, Aug. 30. The annual report of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board states that as was to be expected, the total levy collected oh butter and cheese exported shows a decline due to the rink age in production. Thre was collected the sum of £ 11,148,8 s 9d, interest from investment yielded £490 3s 9d, making the total income £77,638 12s 6d. Following the practice of past years, the expenses are divided under various headings, and show that cost of management for the head office in Wellington was £5972 ! 16s 2d and London office £7026 12s 3d. Exchange on remittances to London Jor advertising and office expenses was £11,141 12s Id. Expenditure on shipping supervision, shipping work at the branches, Exporter, board meeting expenses, etc., absorbed £11,805 13s 9d. Expenditure for the twelve months on daily research carried out by the Dairy Research Institute at Atasrey College was £4900, and a subsidy of £2lO was gifted to the Cawthron Institute at Nelson. Advertising in Great Britain cost £36,-117 4s 2d, bringing the total expenditure to £77,473 18s sd. The report gives a complete sum mary of the Dairy Commission’s conclusion. Regret is expressed al the deaths of Air. Dynes i’ulton and Al r. J. R. Corrigan and appreciation of their work for lhe dairy industry is fully recorded. Dealing with production the report states that lhe Dumber of cows milked for the twelve months of 1934-35 was estimated at 1,980,000, compared with 1,932,511 actual for the twelve jftonths of 1933-34. Butter graded for export decreased 2.86 per runt, and cheese 10.62 per <eni, for the 1934-35 period whim comparison is made with that of 1933-31. On a butterfat basis the decrease in production was 4.831 per cent., taking both butter and cheese. Of the cheese graded 9’1.86 per cent, of Hie quantity so iicr.lt vvitn graded 91 points and over. lhe weekly fixation of the minimum <.i.f. and 1.0. b. prices for butter and cheese, below which no sales could be made was continued throughout, the season, and the board believes that the system was of advantage to the Judustiy. Rutter sokl f.0.1i. or c.i.f. for the 19.11-35 season was IS per eent. of the shipments, the remainder being stripped on consignment. Consumption of butter per capita s slioaii to hav'i im.-rcased in the United Kingdom from 11.7611> per annum in 05 o|), ), r ;uinu in j n 193 f