BONELESS VEAL INDUSTRY.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 244, 5 July 1928, Page 6

BONELESS VEAL INDUSTRY.

A NATIONAL SCHEME. Dairy Companies Consider. Mr. S. Ferguson (Norfolk Dairy Company), president of the South Auckland Dairy Association, presided over a well-attended meeting of members at Hamilton last week, when a scheme for a national organisation for the handling of boneless veal on a co-operative basis was discussed.

A few of the outstanding possibilities of the scheme are: —

1. It is proposed to make available to dairy farmers the privilege of disposing of a hitherto waste product at a remunerative price.

2. The business in its entirety is proposed to be handled by the National Dairy Association, and will be arranged by the executive of the association, in conjunction with small local committees, comprising representatives of Auckland, Taranaki, Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu districts.

3. It is proposed to make the first advance payment covering the value of the hide on a par with what farmers have received for their hides in the past few years, with prospects of a further bonus to the farmer at the close of the season’s operations. It was stated that the South Island Dairy Association, which organised Southland last year on a similar

scheme, was so successful in it. that Otago and Canterbury were this year entering into the scheme. Mr. Anderson (a member of the executive of the National Dairy Association) said the experiment of shipping Home boneless veal was first undertaken two years ago, and in each case where it had been tried it had proved very successful. The business was one in which the costs were, however, exceedingly , neavy. The killing charges amounted to 2Jd per pound of the veal, and the carrying costs averaged from Is to Is 3d per calf. It was therefore necessary, if the business was to prove profitable, to cut down expenses as low as possible. This could best be done by one national organisation. The advantages of a central organ- | isation were many, and if the farmj ers were loyal to it considerable savings could undoubtedly be made. If the National Dairy Association were allowed to handle this business throughout the whole of the North , Island the organisation charges would !be practically infinitesimal. Mr. Ferguson considered that the scheme was likely to solve the call t problem and he thought the South | Auckland Dairy Association would do well to throw in its weight with the National to make the scheme a success.

. The following resolution was carried : “ That this meeting of repre- ■ sentatives of dairy companies in j South Auckland pledges itself to sup- , port the National Dairy Association

in its scheme for the handling of boneless veal on a national, cooperative basis.” It was quite understood that the delegates did not pledge their respective companies, before the directors of whom the scheme will be placed. Each company represented at the meeting is to be asked to appoint a member to a district committee.

A small provisional committee was also set up to place the scheme before those companies not represented.