Factory Managers to Confer

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 16

Factory Managers to Confer

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION ADDRESSES BY EXPERTS Auckland is New Zealand’s dairying province. It is fitting, therefore, that Hamilton should be chosen as the meeting place this year for the annual conference of New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association. The fixture, scheduled for June 1 and 3, coincides with the date of the Hamilton Winter Show. The programme for the first day includes several addresses from leading experts on questions of vital interest to the industry. The second day has been .set apart for a free and open discussion on any subject of interest to those who are engaged in the manufacture of butter, cheese and other products of the dairy farm. On the agenda paper the following have been listed as likely questions for discussion: Should milk be graded as well as cream; flavours, butter or cheese; characteristics of butter or cheese; packing of our dairy products; construction of churns and their relation to make and moisture content; by-products; effects on our products by the water used; what is being done to assist the rising factory manager; acid development in cheese manufacture; is the dairy farmer getting the right instruction; lipless hoops on cheese; can a supplier to a milk factory deliver his milk so that lit* can benefit in his test; what is the effect on the quality of our butter if broken down with water before pasteurising; butter boxes and cheese crates, class of timber; are we getting the best results from pasteurising from temperatures usually adopted in relation to the different percentages of fat in cream; is the manuring of pastures causing any trouble in the finished article of our dairy product. NORTHERN INTERESTS

On May 30 in the Auckland Chamber of Commerce rooms the annual North Auckland Dairying Conference will be held. Chief among the items to be discussed will be the reports from factories and from the Government dairying division on cream grading from the Minister of Agriculture concerning noxious weeds, and from cement and fertiliser firms in reference to a requested reduction in the prices of their products. Mr. W. Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, will deliver an address. Several of the remits to be tabled deal with the board’s activities. The Buy of Islands Dairy Company desires reconstitution of the board, so that it shall consist only of primary producers’ representatives. The Maungatapere Company suggests butter Pools at four throe-monthly periods or six two-monthly periods. A recommendation of the Northern Wairoa Company is that the Dairy Producers* Board should establish a packing house in England and market New Zealand butter in distinctive wrappers. The same .company desires suspension of cream grading in winter months. Other remits oppose flie suggested introduction of “sum-' der time” and advocate a more vigor;is State roading policy as an aid to the dairy industry.