DAIRY CONFERENCE MOTIONS

Chronicle (Levin), 11 October 1947, Page 5

DAIRY CONFERENCE MOTIONS

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WELLINGTON, Oct. 10. Recommendations to the Government that the number of elected fepresentatives on the New Zealand Dairy Board should be inereased to seven and that as the Government has three representatives on the Dairy Produets Marketing Commission, no Government nomi nee should be appointed to the board in future, will be sent from the 16th Dominion Dairy Conference which finished in Wellington today. After diseussions on remits, the conference unanimously adopted a proposal by the chairman, Mr. W. E. Hale that a cable be sent the British Minis ter of Food pledging the dairy industry 's utmost aid to Britain 's food supply and promising that every effort would be made to meet the reported loss of 6000 tons of butter supply from Denmark. During a discussion on the recon stitution of the Dairy Board, some dele gates questioned the necessity of re taining the Dairy Industry Couneil. "You are treading on rather tender corns," replied Mr. Ilale. The couneil. of which he was chairman, had fulfilled a very useful purpose and performed a great service to the industry since its inception in 1938. The conference recommended to the Dairy Board that iL set up a committee to investigate existing legislation With a view to effeeting amendments in keeping with the industry 's present day needs. This committee will study partieularly the question of obtaining relief from taxation of amounts set aside as reserves by dairy companies and the proeuring of legislation to assist dairy companies which are 'in difficulties as a result of a preponderanee of non-supplying shareholders. The conference also agreed that a cdntinued effort should be made to have the law amended so that county councils and the State Highways Board might permit the ereetion of service stands on the roadside and also eontrol thenx without incurring liability for them. The effeet of sueh an amendment, it was stated, would be to bring service stands into line with telephone and power poles.