DAIRY FARMERS MEET

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10298, 5 June 1919, Page 5

DAIRY FARMERS MEET

FAIR SHIPPING FREIGHTS DEMANDED. Pre=s 'Vfi-flciition DUNEDIN, June 4 At the annual meeting of the South Island Danv Association the chlaiim.in, Mi Middleton. said that the operations ol the .I'-socuition had led to a satisfactoi\ deal legauliiig tlie cheese .output. The- butter representative* they- were-- not getting-quite a. fair deal as compared with the cheese people. They thought they had a grievance in the insistence of the Im|jerial'Government'hr grouping the sale of butter and cheese. An effort was still beins made to improve the butter ! position. I cr'A'he-.i report- and- balance-sheet wero -adopted, v.... .a .a ... > »< ■ ' ■ ■ |vi The.! following directors wore elected :—Messrs T. Buckingham (Drumniqndi,, Arnott .CWyndham),.Middietoii |W"aimahaka). , question of forming a mutual insurance association was considered, and a, committee set ■ tin, jo report. v to the executive meeting. It was decided that the executive take steps to provide the secretary with assistance,' leaving him free to carry into effect tin; policy of the association. • .- The meeting' decided to recommend! dairy factories to promote the forma- ' tion of herd testing associations, also' 1 that A. and P. Associations in . tho South Island be strongly urccd to hold bull fairs in a suitable month each .'year,' and that 50 per cent, of tho Government stud bulls be distributed for sale-at these fairs.

■ Tho following motion was carried:— ~''That the outlook in the near future .for?shipping freights on all farm pro-duce-is «'serious" menace to the prosperity; of New Zealand, - and it is im.that aU dairy and meat exporT"''compariies combine for common iWerice and support a fair rate of freight, and that the executive move i'in"this direction at once." | ,y A committee was set up to report to fa special meeting oii the question of a I co-operative London buyer.