INSTRUCTION FOR DAIRY FARMERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22514, 23 September 1938, Page 6

INSTRUCTION FOR DAIRY FARMERS

UNIVERSAL SERVICE REGULATIONS ISSUED (rasas association telrgram.) WELLINGTON, September 22. By the farm dairy instruction regulations, 1938, which were issued with the Gazette to-night, thp service of farm dairy instruction afforded by farm dairy instructors'on the staff of the Department of Agriculture to suppliers to dairy factories to improve and maintain the quality of the raw product supplied for the manufacture of dairy produce is extended to include all suppliers of dairy factories throughout the Dominion. Hitherto such instruction was afforded to a limited number of suppliers on a voluntary basis by . special arrangement for payment of a portion of the cost of such service, made between the department and the owners of dairy factories whoso suppliers were given the desired instruction. The regulations are designed to ensure that not more than three-fifths of the annual cost of farm dairy instruction shall 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 butter-fat basis, and partly on a suppliers’ basis. The rate of the butterfat levy is fixed at o.ooßd per lb, and that on the suppliers’ basis at 4s a supplier. The annual cost of farm dairy instruction shall bo determined by the Minister for Agriculture, and shall include allowance for the cost of direct and indirect administrative supervision of 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 butter-fat levy as will be just and equitable, or direct that the surplus for any year shall bo accumulated for a like adjustment at the end of two or more years.