NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 23 June 1910, Page 5

NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION

AXXUAL MEETING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston Xorth, Wednesday. At the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association it was decided to increase the directorate to seven. A motion of sympathy with ex-Presi-dent Foreman in his illness was carried. It was stated ihat the year's work was the most profitable in'the history of the Association. .Messrs. McFarlane and Fisher were re-eJeeted to the directorate. It was decided to recommend factories to adopt a uniform size in cheese crates, that suggested being a head of 15 inches and length of the batten 27 inches. Forty-six co-operative companies, one proprietary, and three exporters were represented. In formally moving the adoption of the report and 'balance-sheet, the president (Mr. Maefarlane, of Pahiatua) said the season had been a remarkable oneit had been one of the longest on record for milking, and the prices all through had been high. There had been a big increase in Germany's imports of butter from Denmark and other similar countries, and the result was distinctly in New Zealand's favor, for it gave a more open market in England for New Zealand produce. A further contract had been made with the shipping companies, and some valuable concessions had been got from them, including a weekly steamer service in the busy season. Mr. Marx wanted to know if anything had been done in the matter ot »asurances, which had been a burning question during the past year. The chairman replied that the output had been insured through the London house for the present year only at lis Mr. C. R. Beattie wanted to know how the outside factories got on in the matter of doing their business at Home. The chairman replied that they did it through their agents, who were members of the Association. Mr. Beattie said if that were the case .a number of the factories' would probably withdraw from the Association. He thought it should be made distinctly clear that factories who wished to export should do so through the Association. (Hear, hear.) YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Palmerston Xorth, Last Night. At the Dairy Conference, papers were read by Mr. J. Murray, on behalf of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers' Association, on the pasteurisation and care and treatment of milk. Messrs. Weddell and Co., London, pointed out that the difficulty in New Zealand with colonial butter'was that the conservation in the Old Land demanded pasteurised butter, good, bad, or indifferent, and it was necessary that New Zealand should pasteurise its milk products if it was to grip the field of home competition.' They were only just beginning to take New Zealand from the cow to the cheese press, Mr. R. Ellison, of London, delivered an interesting address on the London produce trades. Mr. S. R. Lancaster gave an address on "How to Judge a Dairy Cow," and illustrated the address by practical demonstration.