DAIRY CONFERENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 10

DAIRY CONFERENCE

UNIFORM ADVANCE PAYMENTS | Per Trebs Association. J HASTINGS, June 19. The National Dairy Conference was concluded at Hastings to-day. The sea sion dealt with remits coaceining uniform payouts and a compensating price for produce, and addresses were given by Dr. H. R. Whitehead on the work of the Dairy Research Institute and by Colonel S. J. E. Closey, ALC., V.D., Levin. The latter dealt with the question of a compensating price and the conference accepted the suggestion of the speaker to adopt the principle embodied in a remit agreeing that it was an important point. It was .decided that the next conference be held at Hamilton. The conference passed the following resolution: “That it be a recommendation from the conference that dairy suppliers confer with each other in their respective districts with the object of determining n uniform advance payment and a uniform amount to be retained to supplement suppliers during the winter months.” The Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., moved the following remit, which was carried: “That tne only equitable basis of payment for primary produce is to pay to producers a compensatory price to cover the difference between the price level in the countryin which his goods are sold as compared with the price level in the country in which his goods arc produced.”