DAIRY INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 7

DAIRY INDUSTRY

THE GUARANTEED PRICE & RISING COSTS NATIONAL DAIRY CONFERENCE REPORT. CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT POLICY. The annual report of the National Dairy Conference deals at considerable length with the marketing of dairy produce, the guaranteed price and the increase in costs in the industry. “In response to the strong representations made by last conference,” says the report, “the Government agreed to increase the differential for the present season to 2d a pound, with the object of checking the drift from cheese to butter. This decision is reflected in the basis prices fixed for the season, and, although these place cheese interests in a relatively better position than in the previous year, we regret we again have to express our doubts as to whether the theoretical figures will be borne out by actual results. It appears to us that the department has not taken sufficient cognisance of the fact that increasing costs are affecting cheese manufacture to a greater degree than butter, and we fail to see how the difference will prove to be more than ljd, or, at the outside, l?d.” (Continued on page 3.)