BOBBY CALF POOL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 21, 7 June 1939, Page 8

BOBBY CALF POOL

CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY'S ACHIEVEMENT MR W. A: PHILLIPS REVIEW Interviewed regarding; the effect on his company's operations of the Waikato and Auckland Calf Pooi Federations, Mr W. A. Phillips. Chairman of Directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association, stated that while these local federations had annexed further pools several had also been added to those administered by lais association and although as a result of these changes a reduction in the number of free or independently directed pools wa s indicated, the volume of calves which was available for disposal through his organisation was very satisfactory and likely to be even greater than last year. '"Our association,'" said Mr Phil, lips, ''has welcomed and fostered the advent of pools, since only by the application of this principle has it been possible to pursue our activities on co-operative methods." The New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association had been the, body longest associated co-operative-ly with the trade in the Dominion. That the association had been a real factor in the development of the Industry was indicated by the fact that the number of calves handled by it had gradually increased. When the association took over in it had j handled 164,000 calves. This total had gradually increased and in 11X58 the association handled calves Questioned on the extent and scope of his association's operations in the calf business last season, Mr Phillips said that in keeping with their national co-operative-operations and objectives in the pig industry their activities in the bobby calf trade hful also spread to include every district in New Zealand with the exception of Wairarapa and Southland, in which a,reas calf pools had been in operation for some years past. "Altogether" continued Mr Phillips, ''our association collected and marketed over 237,000 bobby calves during last season. .This total included the product of 28 pools all ol which were associated in our National Co-operaMve scheme, and in which connection it is significant to note that with the two exceptions already mentioned all pools operating outsiae the Auckland Province were attached to it." Regarding the duplication of his company's co-operative services and competitive elements represented by the activities of the federations in question, Mr Phillips. was not prepared to comment beyond mentioning that the history of the dairy industry offered a parallel, in which time and experience had worked out its own solution. "This method has in the past proved costly,'' concluded Mr Phillips, '"but there appeared to be no other "practical way round the which was fraught with difficulties of a highly conflicting nature. T '