SOUTH ISLAND DAIRYING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 330, 17 June 1911, Page 5

SOUTH ISLAND DAIRYING.

ASSOCIATION'S GENERAL MEETING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The annual meeting of the South Island Dairy Association was held today, Mr. John Gray (Mataura) presiding. The balance-sheet showed that the revenue for the year was £907 19s 3d, and the expenditure £740 9s 2d, leaving a credit balance of £lO7 10s Id.

In moving the adoption of the annual report, the chairman said the auction sale proposal had been tried, but only four factories responded. There was a meeting in Invercargill, but the figures were so far apart and so high that there was no chance of doing business. A fair number of the factories stuck to the agents, but not sufficiently to give any control to the market. Regarding the proposal to revise the appointments of agents in London, he said that for some time past the directors had intended to look into the position, and urged concentration of produce at the New Zealand end, which he believed would be a very good thing for the factories. The dairying industry was a very large one, and he believed that eventually it wonld outpace the frozen mutton industry. The motion was seconded by Mr. Hunter (Edendale), and carried. It was decided by a majority that the board of management be requested to take the necessary steps to incorporate in the articles of the association a clause to the effect that the entire chese output of the factories of all members be handled exclusively bv the association.

It was also resolved that the committee revise the appointment of agents in London and make a rc-selec-tion. The mover, Mr. Campbell (Wyndham) said one reason why some factories did not sell through the association was that they were not satisfied with their agents. Mr. Lumsden (Drtimmond) said the committee intended to revise the list and might appoint eight or ten agents in London. The question of holding sales by auction was left in the hands of the executive. It was decided to urge on the Minister of Agriculture the necessity for legislating to prevent the sale of diseased stock as dairy stoek. The mover said he referred specially to cows affected by such diseases as contagious mammiti's and contagious abortion. The retiring directors, Messrs. Hunter, Bolt and Baker, were re-elected.