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were held between the Wellington Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., the Wellington City Council, and the Milk Marketing Division, and resulted in the following price schedules being determined upon for the 1946-47 milk year : Summer period .. .. .. 17-75 d. per pound butterfat, plus 5-39 d. per gallon added value. Autumn period .. .. .. 17 *7sd. per pound butterfat, plus 7-79 d. per gallon added value. Winter period .. .. .. 17-75 d. per pound butterfat, plus 85 per cent, of 17-75 d.,. plus 7-54 d. per gallon added value. By agreement, also, the processing and distributive operations of the Wellington City Council and of milk vendors in the Hutt Valley are governed by the same margins as those applied under the National Milk Scheme, and on the basis of stabilized retail prices an annual reconciliation is made between the Milk Marketing Division, the Wellington City Council, and the Wellington Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd. In respect of the 1946-47 milk year this arrangement resulted in the payment of subsidies to the industry through the Wellington City Council to an amount of £108,833 12s. lid., and direct to the Wellington Dairy Farmers' Association in respect of raw milk trade in the Hutt Valley to the sum of £3,289 18s. 3d. 8. Wellington Thirty-mile Producers : Payment of Special Winter Feed Allowance Milk producers within a thirty-mile radius of Wellington were paid a special winter feed allowance of -|d. per gallon on total sales for the 1945-46 milk year. For the present year, 1946-47, the procedure was altered, by agreement, to the basis of the payment of 1 • Id. per gallon on milk produced during the autumn and winter periods. This allowance involved the payment by the Milk Marketing Division of subsidiesamounting to £8,454 on milk handled during the milk year ended 31st August, 1947. 9. Organization of Emergency Milk Supplies During the year drought conditions were experienced, particularly in Auckland, and emergency milk to the extent of approximately 89,922 gallons had to be secured from emergency cheese-factories in the Aka Aka and Hauraki Plains areas. These arrangements involved the payment of additional amounts totalling £1,548. 10. Payments Made by the Milk Marketing Division in Respect of Milk Supplied for Human Consumption for the Period Ist September, 1946,. to 31st August, 1947 (a) Payments made under National Milk Scheme to producers, treating £ houses, and vendors .. .. .. .. .. 442,349 (b) Cost of surplus milk scheme .. .. .. .. .. 67,898(Note. —The cost of purchasing milk at national milk price after deducting actual realizations was the equivalent of 0-6927 d. per gallon of actual town milk sales) (c) Payment of winter feed allowances .. .. .. .. 8,704 (d) Payment of administration levy to producer associations .. .. 7,895 (e) Payment of levies to local Milk Authorities .. .. .. 9,498 (/) Payment of additional transport and handling costs incurred in obtaining emergency milk supplies .. .. .. .. 1,548 £537,892 Approximate Coat of Paper.—Preparation, not given; printing (788 copies), £7 10s.

By Authority: E. V. Paul, Government Printer, Wellington. —1948. Price 3d.]

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