DAIRY PRODUCE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 46, 17 November 1937, Page 9

DAIRY PRODUCE

Our Own Correspondent.)

Terms of Payment for Export After July 31 BUTTER-BOX PRICES

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WELLINGTON,- This" Day. Butfer and cheese . exported befween the start of the present dairy season on .August 1 and the making of the oraer oarly in September anuouncing the guaranteed price for this season will be paid for at tHe prices fixed for the current season. This provision is made in a section of the Finance Bill which was introduced in -fhe House of Bepresentatives last night by Governor-GeneraPs message. The part of the" Bill dealing with payments from .the Dairy Industry Account makes it clear that after the close of last season and until the. prices were fixed for the present season, butter and cheese exported from New Zealand were purchased by the Government at last year's prices. The Bill authorises the payment to producers of the differehce between this season 's and last season 's prices. Authority is also given for the payment out of the Dairy Industry Account of accumulated. deductions made from the price of. butter^ for the purpose of equaiising the price of butter boxes. Tlie payment of £30,866 17/- is authorised ,in this "respecfr and is to be distributed among the' persons deemed by the Minister of Marketing to be entitled to share in the proceeds. / Dairy produce exported before tho tnd of .last season at the express request of the Marketing Department is to be paid for at the present season 's prices. This provision applies only in tho case Of butter graded on or after April 20 and cheese graded on or after March 19. . ' A special" clauso, validates tho purchase by the Government of the firm of Picot Brothers Limited, and of Picots, Palmerston North, Limited. Both tnese firms were taken over for the purposes of the Government's internal marketing sekeme and the Bill authorises the' [nternal Marketing Division to carry on those businesses. Manufacturers supplying butter in the Wellington marketing, district are to receive the diffefence between the original parity value fixed in respeet of tbfeir businesses( and the ainended parity value - recently announced. The Dairy Board is authorised to incur expenditure on rescarch or other work in relation to dairy stock or dairy produce. A contribution of £10,000 by the board toward the cost of supplying milk to schoolchildrcn is validated. Legislative authority is given for the payment into the Dairy Industry Aeccunt of the levy imposed by the Dairy Board on dairj; exjtorts,