DAIRY INDUSTRY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1929, Page 8

DAIRY INDUSTRY

MEETING OF COUNCIL. WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. Tiie first meeting of the New Zealand Dairy Council was held to-day, fortyseven companies being represented. Mr Dynes Fulton, chairman of directors of Amalgamated Dairies, Limited, presided. There were also present Mr AY. Goodfellow and Messrs W. Grounds, J. R. Corrigan and J. Dunlop, members of the Dairy Board, and the chairmen Of forty-seven butter and cheese-pro-ducing companies from all parts of tlie Dominion whose produce is being handled by Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd. The total quantity of produce represented by the gathering was valued at £0,300,000. The tonnage of produce amounted to 31.000 tons of butter and 11,000 tons of cheese. The Mayor, Mr G. A. Troup, extended a cordial welcome to the confeience and wished it success in its deliberations. Air W. Goodfellow said Amalgamated Dairies would continue its policy of co-operating, with Tooley Street agents on exactly the same system as hitherto and would progressively open selling floors throughout the United Kingdom. These selling floors would receive small consignments direct from New Zealand, and would receive supplementary support from London stocks. The main objective of orderly marketing was to endeavour to lift the price-level to the highest possible average figure. They had no intention of endeavouring to extract from the market an artificial price. That was impossible. They could only, endeavour to get the maximum price by close organisation and by elimi mating unnecessary profits between the price paid by the retailer and the price paid to the producer. The second main objective, Mr Goodfellow pointed out, was to co-ordinate the marketing of Empire produce. The election of directors to represent tlie North Island on the board of Amalgamated Dairies resulted in Messrs AY. Grounds and J. G. Breehan being elected, and to represent the South Island Air J. Fisher defeated Air C. T. Al’Callum by eleven votes to nine It was unanimously resolved:— (1) “That this Dairy Council supports and encourages the gradual development of the principle of ifree trade within the Empire.” (2) “That the Government he asked to prohibit the export of cheese if waxed prior to fourteen clays after manufacture,” (3) “That the Government he requested to abolish the appointment of their nominees to the Dairy Control Board.” It was also resolved that the Government should ho asked to remove the proprietary nominee from the Dairy Control Board.