RUBBER RESTRICTIONS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 77, 13 July 1942, Page 4

RUBBER RESTRICTIONS

FOR USE IN THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

''The purposes of the Milking Machine Control Order 1942 and the two amendments were explanatory,'" said the Director-General of Agriculture (Mr A. H. Cockayne). "The Order and the amendments, control the sale of milking machines, metal parts and milking machine rubberware, and are designed to conserve the available stocks of metals, and especially rubber used in connection with these plants." "Briefly stated, the present position is that before a buyer can place an order for a milking plant or a part of a milking plant other than a metal part which is exclusively a renewal or replacement of a metal part of the milking machine for the time being used in the dairy and is not an extension or duplication or standby or spare part, and before a seller can accept the order, the buyer must obtain a Avritten permit from the Farm Dairy ■ Instructor for the district and produce it to the seller,'" stated Mr Cockayne. "The quantity of rubberware which a milking machine user may hold as spares is confined to air and milk dropper rubberware and one j set of moulded inflations, where moulded inflations arc used, for one bail; one complete set of clam rub-, hers and soft inflations, where soft inflations are used, for each set of teat cups in use in his dairy." "Before selling to a dairy farmer any milking machine rubberware, the vendor must receive from the purchaser a written and signed order setting out the quantities sought to be purchased and must be satisfied by the purchaser that they are within. the foregoing limits. The vendor must keep all such orders for in--* spection for 12 months. "All retailers and all users of milking machine rubberware are required to conform to, the conditions set out in the Order. The 1 penalty fo a contravention, in the case of a person, is a sum not exceeding £200 and/or 12< months' imprisonment, and in the case of a company, a sum not exceeding £1000."