CHEESE PREMIUM PLAN
TARANAKI SCHEME TO IMPROVE QUALITY COMPULSORY LEVY Special to TUB SUN NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. Agreement with the statement that the problem of cheese quality can be tackled most expeditiously by concentrating on the question of premiums for quality, was expressed by Air. W. M. Singleton, director of the Dairy Division, in a conference with the Federation of Taranaki Dairy Companies at llawera yesterday. The conference was not open to the Press, but a statement was issued. A recommendation embodying such a system is to be made to the forthcoming conference of the Xationul Dairy Association at Hamilton. The statement issued says: “After a full discussion with Air. Singleton it was decided to recommend to the Hamilton conference that a system of compulsory levy and payment of a premium on cheese according to quality be instituted, such a levy to be made and the premium paid in groups of factories according to grading stores and the basis of the scheme to be the grading points and differential payments to be made according to grade. “The effect of this recommendation would be that insofar as this district is concerned, all cheese factories grading their cheese at Patea would constitute a group and all the cheese graded would carry a levy at so much a crate (2s a crate was tentatively suggested). This levy would constitute a fund which would be paid out on all the cheese concerned according to tlie grading points scored by the cheese, this proposal being subject to any better suggestion in that regard by the Hamilton conference.
“It was considered that a 90-points cheese might form the basis, such cheese to carry no premium. Each half-point in grading above 90 points would carry a premium for that cheese of 5d a crate, so that a 90?.-points cheese would carry a premium of scl a crate and 91 points lOd a crate. The matter of grading points and the amount of premium a crate and the amount of levy a crate a,re subject to alteration or a better suggestion by Hamilton conference/'
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1002, 19 June 1930, Page 11
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