MILK AND CREAM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 659, 10 May 1929, Page 11

MILK AND CREAM

TESTING AND GRADING GOVERNMENT CONTROL URGED (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, Thursday. That the ' Government should take over the control of grading and testing mjjk and cream was the request made to the Hon. G. W. Forbes, Minister of Lands, today by representatives of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, yesterday. The chairman of directors, Mr. Dynes Fulton, said that little further progress could be made in improving the quality of dairy prod Lice unless the department exercised a greater measure of control over the grading than was the case at present. Grading of cream was compulsory throughout New Zealand today, but owing to the peculiar nature of the dairy business it appeared to be almost impossible for the officers of the Dairy Division to enforce the regulations definitely and he hoped the Minister would cause the compulsory grading of the cream to be transferred from the companies’ graders to the Government graders. The manager of the company, Mr. C. J. Parlane, said that testing was closely associated with grading, for while the testing remained in the hands of individual companies it no doubt contributed to the keen competition for supplies and it enabled companies to collect cream over long distances without cost to the supplier. His directors advocated that all dairyfarmers should be subject to instructions irrespective of the company to which they supplied cream, while an added advantage would be that all companies would contribute their fair share to the cost of this work, which was regarded as a national one.