BOBBY CALF TRADE.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1938, Page 4

BOBBY CALF TRADE.

ORGANISATION MEASURES. DAIRY COMPANY’S VIEW. The opinion that if the bobby calf industry does not assist in removing some of the worst features of the trade there is a danger of either the Government or the Transport Department stepping in and making drastic regulations is expressed in a circular issued to suppliers by the Morrinsville Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited. It is stated that the directors are watching carefully to see that this scheme is controlled by the producers and not by outsiders. In outlining his scheme for the reorganisation of the bobby calf trade, the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, pointed out that he would require to be satisfied that the opinion of the dairying industry was substantially in favour of its adoption. Accordingly, meetings of suppliers have been held by various companies, while in other cases ballot papers have been distributed. “The directors must fall in with the wishes of the Minister and circulate the voting papers, but they regret that very little detail of the proposed scheme is available,” states the circular. “It will entail compulsory pool areas being set up and controlled by a committee, under the direction of the New Zealand Dairy Board, which will be responsible for the organisation and collection of calves, and probably the selling of the meat from the freezing works. There will be no outside buyers in the country, and the dairy farmers will have to, sell their bobby calves through the local pool. All members of the pool will receive an equalised price, according to the weight of the calves.”