TASMANIAN DAIRYING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 27

TASMANIAN DAIRYING

NEED OF CO-OPERATION One of the pricipal questions dealt ■with at the dairying conference held in Launceston, Tasmania, recently, related to the amalgamation of butter factories in Tasmania. It was said at the conference that motions favouring such a procedure had been agreed to at the annual meetings of almost every co-operative factory in Tasmania. The question had been strongly debated by shareholders in factories on the NorthWest Coast, and it was contended that if an arrangement could be made whereby all the factories concerned in that area could work under one board of directors considerable economies would be effected. The chairman of the conference said that anything more farcical than the present position could not be imagined, and the waste of money in the existing circumstances vas scandalous. With amalgamation, he was of the opinion that the production of butter would increase twofold. Unless something were done to improve the industry it could not make progress. Another speaker said that from an economic point of view there were too many butter factories in Tasmania for the volume of cream produced. The dairying industry of the State 20 years ago demanded factories in certain places, but as rapid transport was now available the position had altered considerably.