INSTRUCTION ON DAIRY FARMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 5

INSTRUCTION ON DAIRY FARMS

THE SERVICE EXTENDED ALL SUPPLIERS NOW INCLUDED HOW THE COST IS TO BE MET i Per Press Association.J WELLINGTON, Sept. 22. By the Farm Dairy Instruction Rc- 1 gulations, 1938, which are issued with : the Gazette to-night, the service oil farm dairy instruction afforded by farm dairy instructors on the staft ox the Department of Agriculture to suppliers to dairy factories, for the purpose of improving and maintaining th.. quality of the raw product supplied for the manufacture ot uairy produce, is extended to include ail suppliers 01 dairy factories throughout the Dominion. Hitherto, such instruction was afforded to a limited number of suppliers on a voluntary basis by special arrangement for the payment ot portion of the cost of such service, made between the department and the owners of dairy factories whose suppliers were given a desire for instruction. The regulations are designed to ensure that not more than three-fifths of the annual cost of farm dairy instruction be borne by the dairy industry, and the balance by the Government. The portion of the cost to be borne by the industry is to be defrayed by way of levies imposed on the owners of dairy factories, partly on a butterfat basis and partly on a suppliers basis. The rate of the butterfat levy is fixed at o.ooBd per lb. and that on the suppliers on a basis at 4s per supplier. The annual cost ot farm dairy instruction shall be determined by the Minister of Agriculture, and shall include an allowance for the cost of direct and indirect administrative supervision of the field officers actually engaged. Where the total amount of levies receivable in any financial year exceeds three fifths of the cost of such instruction, the Minister may direct that such reduction shall be made in the rate of the butterfat levy as will be just and equitable, or direct that the surplus for any year shall be accumulated for a like adjustment at the end of two or more years.