DAIRY PROBLEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1931, Page 8

DAIRY PROBLEMS

ST AND A R DtSE D CM ELSE. PROHIBITION OF EXPORT DESIRED. DUNEDIN, June 5. A meeting of the South Island Dai'y Association passed a resolution that the export oi standardised ( ’oee- Sa should be absolutely prohibit'd. A remit from Edendale, ”l !l at the i (inference lyas no confidence in the profit administration oi the Daii) Division of the Department of Ag‘ieultui’e,” was lost. The mover stated that the output ol finest cheese had dropped from 55 p»r cent. in. 1927 to 17 per cent. now. At Auckland it had dropped from 43 l>e r cent, to 10 per cent.; at Now lb* mouth from 53 to 13; at Patea, Iroin ■Hi to 5; at Wanganui, from 54 to 23; at Wellington, from Gl to 27; at Lyttelton, from G 8 to 29; at Dunedin, from 78 to G 8; at Bluff, from 69 to GO. New ZehlHiid, lie said, was suff«ring from a desperate disease, and something .should he done to overcome it.

GRADING OF AIILK. •The association passed a resolution urging the Dairy Division to take steps to institute the compulsory grading ot milk dor cheese-making with differential payments based on quality. The association passed a further resolution urging an amendment ol the Arbitii’nltion Act, providing lor compulsory conciliation and optional arbitration.

A long remit expressed the opinion that the ipast administration had failed to provide an authoritative lead to direct the industry’s internal as well as export affairs and that effective administration required a hoard or organisation elected by the produgeis.

Thi.s was carried and representatives were appointed to attend the National Dairy Conference to support tbe appointing of a committee representing all interests which would submit a common basis for the co-ordination of all .dairy 1 organisations and tlie appointment of an advisory board.-

'REMITS CAB IHItD. The following remits were carried: — 1) “Y'liat 1 this conference" consider tlie advisability of more rigid enforcement of the' (Team grading regulations, oi alternatively that such regulations he excised from the general H'gulai * turns. (2) That the Department Ik* re{,nested to ; piomote regulations that will put- an end to costly overlapping of cream collection by limiting the boundaries within which any butter company shall be licensed to operate, or such other means as may best commend itself to the industry. ’

fu the afternoon .session rcniits were nasseil:— (1) Stressing tlie desirability ot tbe Dairy Hoard being supplied with the mimes of tV«* companies l ebhfcArned when they were given quality reports from London:

(2) Roafliflning previous resolutions f"vouring ! a NntiGnal Farm of Dairy Instruction. (3) [Jrgiiiigi! that airing > rooms be left at a minimum temperature of 55 Far., while ikv’iainiug cheese that was to leave thN Tilotory at loss! thlin one month after manufacture.

(4) That regulations be gazetted making tbe proper washing of utensils compulsory, and prohibiting tlie use of milk or ct’ e am cans for carrying whey or hot water. (5) Approving the principle of cooperative marketing of dairy produce.