WHY MAHARAHARA PAID OUT MORE

Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1946, Page 5

WHY MAHARAHARA PAID OUT MORE

-Press Assoeiation

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WELL1NGTOX, July ;su. Tlie New Zealand Dairy Board, in a statement, says its altention has lieen ylrawn to a recent Press Assoeiation paragraph indieating that the Maharahara Dairy Coinpany was paying its suppliers for last season 2(i.U2d per pound, ineluding tlie farin eost allo\v-j ance oi 3.094(1. The board has been j asked to give an explanation as to how I the pay out for oue eonipany can be so niuch in exeess of the average payout which, under the guarauteed prie.e formula, is 20.3SU1 per ]»ound of liutterfat for butterniaking, and 22J!SJd for eheese, ineluding tlie farm eost allow ance. The annual report of the eompany eoneerned sliows that 26.8 per eent. of the total butterfat received from suppliers was disposed of through saies of liquid inilk while .1 per eent. was sold in the forin of cream, and 73.1 per eent. for eheeseniakiiig. A contraet is held for the supply of niilk to sehools. The higher priee payable for butterfat in whole milk used iri such a manner, eonipensates- for the fae-t lluit extra costs are iiieurre.d by dairy fhrinevsd.n sappl.ying an even quantity of milk of high quality througliottt tlie year, while no return is received from bypvoduets. The payout of such a eompany, tlierefore, should not be conipared rvith that. of conipaiiies wliolly engaged in the manufaelure of butter aiul eheese.