THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 37, 5 June 1914, Page 7

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

STANDARDISATION OF CREAM. [Feb Pbesb association.] Hamilton, June 4. A meeting of representatives of dairy companies in the Auckland province ■was held at Hamilton last night to discuss the grading and marketing ot produce. Mr Yorton, president of the National Dairy Association, presided. He suggested that the south Auckland companies should follow on the lines of the North Auckland conference on Monday last. Opposition canle from Mr Goodfellow, Waikato' Co-operative Dairy Co., who considered that the difficulties of inferior supplies wovdd he best mst by the individual companies grading and showing sufficient backbone to return inferior cream. In view of this opposition, a resolution was passed asking- for signatures to an agreement in the direction of standardising the quality of cream acceptable and to he paid for on purity and quantity of butter-fat. Twelve companies signed, and another agreed to recommend signature, but Mr Goodfellow refused. A QUESTION OF PREFERENCE. Dunedin, June 4. The Prime Minister this morning loft for Christchurch. A deputation representing the dairyfactories of Otago yesterday waited on him and asked for an alteration in the proposed arrangement with the Union Company in connection with the America trade so that butter might be carried free from small ports to the port of call of large steamers. They urged that the G overmen! should not enter into any contract with the Union Company in which the North Island received an allowance of from one farthing to a halfpenny per lh on dairy produce over ami above that allowed to the South Island. The speakers contended that one universal price and oue f.o.b. basis should ho made, for the whole of New Zealand lines were subsidised, and it was not right that one island should get preference over the other. Mr Massey said that the recent conference, and his own Department had done their best to obtain the alteration asked for, but the Company had positively declined to allow ii, The only alternative was to ask Parliament to vote a sufficient sum to carry butter free as desired, and ho was of opinion Parliament would refuse to give such a vote.