DAIRY PRODUCE CONTROL.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1927, Page 3

DAIRY PRODUCE CONTROL.

TERMINATION OF POOLING. (By Telegraph—Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, June 10,. Air Bra*lt, Secretary of the Dairy Produce Board, issued the following statement: The Dairy Board decided to-day that the pooling of returns for creamery butter should terminate with the butter graded up to and including April 30th. 1027, when the second creamery butter pool ends. The pooling of cheese and whey butter returns ends with cheese, and whey butter graded rp to and including July 31st. 1927.

To avoid delay in making advances with butter graded from May Ist. onwards. tbe Board will temporarily attend to drafts, invoices, etc. as in flic past-, unless dairy companies or ounces of produce advise file Board or its agents that they will themselves be attending lo these details, and making alterations in destination or method off marketing. The Board will continue to handle all -bills of lading and arrangements for insurance n.s in the

London cablegram* advise a very late northern spring. thus curtailing the production of butter and New Zealand fortunately scores with at least three full weeks of sales on the Home and Foreign markets; probably 300,000 boxes additional, because three weeks may stretch into four weeks.

POOLING SCHEME. WELLINGTON, June 17. Tbe Dairy Produce Export Control Board spent the whole day in committee considering a motion to rescind the pooling of dairy produce on the London market next season. No official iiilormation was obtainable, but certain members of the board state that while tbe discussion has not concluded the decision is sure to mean abandonment of pooling, which practically means the disappearance of tinlast vestige of control. It was asserted that no matter how the elections in the three wards result they cannot prevent a win for the antipooling party. One strong objection urged against j,doling is that the distribution of the proceeds is made on the basis of New Zealand grade marks, though in praclice it has been found that certain factories produce butter capable of reaching the finest grade before shipment, hut deteriorating in transit. These consignments are re-graded by the Imard's experts in London and sold at a lower figure, though on the basis of the New Zealand grade note the suppliers obtain tile return for the finest grade. Mr \\ . A. Inins, a member of the hoard who acted as chairman of the London agency during the jieriod when control was fully operative, has communicated to the. Press a statement condemning the system.