EXPORTED CHEESE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 8

EXPORTED CHEESE

EXTRA PAYMENT ACCOUNT GOVERNMENT PLANS. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Further details of the special account to be created with the Marketing Department from the proceeds of the extra 5s 9d sterling a cwt to be paid for exported cheese for the 194142 season were given yesterday by the Minister of Marketing. Mr Barclay. The Minister said it was intended that a special committee representative of both the Government and the industry should be set up to recoinmend. to the Government the extent ot dairy factory and suppliers' costs arising from the change-over to cheese, dairy factory and suppliers’ costs arising from the change-over to cheese, which could fairly be regarded as a charge on the special account. The Government had last year, in the initial stages of the change-over, given an undertaking that it would assume a responsibility for these costs and that undertaking had been given before there was any recognition . of these costs on the part of the United Kingdom Government. Dairy-farmers and representatives of butter and cheese companies could, therefore, be assured that the Government, after consideration of the recommendations of the committee, would make payments from the account toward the extra costs which the committee was to examine. These payments would in effect constitute a first charge on the account.