DAIRY ZONING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 87, 29 April 1937, Page 6

DAIRY ZONING

-Press Association. V

Map of Manawatu Area Prepared CONFERENCE IN MAY

(By Telegrapb-

1 WELLINGTON, Last Night. In view of the number of inquiriea received regarding the suggested plan of zoning of dairy factories in the Manawatu district, details of which wore.published recently, fihe deputy chairman of the Executive Commission of Agriculture, Sir Francis Fraeer, made the following statement for publication: — "The Commission 's attention has been drawn to references in the Press to tho zoning map prepared by Messrs. Mills and McDonald, and it is apparent fihat a number of suppliers are under tho impression that the plan of zoning in conformity with tho map in question has been finally approvod by the Commission. This is not the case. Tho Commission cohsidered the simplest and most astisfactory method of rationalising the collection of cream and tho manufacture of butter was somo form of merger of a number of dairy companies in the " central area. The companies were not unanimous regarding this and it was necessary to consider other methods. "The Commission met representatives of the.companies in conference on a number of occasions and at the last meeting it was agTeed that Messrs Mills and McDonald should be deputed to prepare a map of the district on which Would be plotted areas that would enable each butter factory to collect approximately the same volume of cream as at present but from a moro compact area. "Owing to tlie situation of different factories in relation to the supply areas, it was recognised that the method oi. eonserving to each factory its present yolume of cream supplies was not ideaL It was nee^isary, however, to have a concrete plan that could be examined in detail to serve as a basis for discussion and to indieate the means of eliminating the overlapping iu tha ■eream collection services that now exists. ' 'It was deflnitely understood at the meeting in question that so aotion would be taken until a further meeting With the eompanies had been hlld. That understanding still holds good. After the map had been prepared, the Commission conferred with Messrs Mills and McDonald "and arranged for the deposit of the map in the office of tho Manawatu Dairy Companies' Association at Palmerston North and notified representatives of the dairy companies that they were at liberty to examine it in order that they might f amiliarise themselves with the details and be able to discuss them at a later meeting with the clear understanding of all that was involved. "The CommiBsion proposes to call a further meeting next month when the whole matter will be fully considered in the light of the information made available by the mapping of the district. Tt has not confirmed any plan of zoning and has no intention of making a decision until the matter has been consider ed at nest month's meeting. "It was understood that the details of the map should be Tegarded as eonfidential until the companies met the Commission to discuss *t, and it is regretted that the premature disclosure .which was not authorised by the Commission, has caused a number of suppliers to think the Commission is in any way committed to adopt a system of zoning in conformity with the map in question. The map is merely a starting point, and0 whether it is ultimately adopted, wholly or in part, or discarded altogether, it is necessary to have something of the ftind in order to ■enable the next conference to have a 'concrete suggestion to discuss."