NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7721, 25 January 1905, Page 2

NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

1 (Per Press Association.) INVEHCARGIIJ,, .Jan. 23. I he animal meeting of members of the National Dairying Association i was held at the lllufl to-day, iu or- ' Thorn? Se ° M !,' SSI ' S Singleton and ■ 1 hornlon grade 2194 eases of cheese i and hear their comments thereon " !" 'J' 0 : evening they met in town. Mr Kmsolla wrote apologising for ' Jus absence through ill-health, but hoped later on to come south and J discuss the question of cool curing u itn factory managers. I The question of centralising shin- . ments was considered. Mr Tlionid U pnid to rnil butter to 1 .Lyttelton, and Mr Howie (Timaru) suggested that port as the best, > IHi t Mr Thornton opposed this. The . Chairman (Mr Milne) said that Kyt- . telton was, then, the onlv port but . they could not afford to pay the , present railway freights. A motion 3 to again approach the Railway Dc- . partment with a view to securing a reduction in freight charges was car- ] ried. \ 'he matter of fire insurance on , factories came up, and a motion to . approach the Government Fire l)e----t Pa rll ?? n i relative to a reduction in E the high rates paid to companies . was tabled. The secretary stated B that one insurance company had 1 "* v °ured factories in the past, but when other companies reduced'rates _ to the same level the directors had _ transferred their insurances to these c and afterwards the rates were raisj c<l - Factories therefore had themselves to blame. The motion was t, t ' lun ''ejected in favour of an amend--9 ment to give companies as well as i the Government Department an opt portunity to quote lower rates. r It was resolved to recommend the _ conterence in June to register the associal ion under the Unclassified Societies Act, and that all material t J or factories W'ithjn thy association _ be indented through the association. Mr Henderson (Henderson and v Uatger) sugges'ted the creation of _ exchanges in centres wherc buvurs could do business without visiting individual factories. The Chairman said the .matter was ■ n most important one, and would - bo noticed at the conference.