FROM AUGUST 1

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 2

FROM AUGUST 1

PAYMENTS TO THE DAIRY INDUSTRY AGAINST INCREASING COSTS. NO BACK PAYMENTS PROPOSED. - (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. An amplification of his statement in the House of Representatives on the special cost adjustment payments to be • made to the dairying industry was given by the Minister of Marketing, Mr Barclay, last evening. He said that the payment of the cost equivalents recommended by the committee would apply from August 1 next, the commencement of the 1943-44 dairying season. This recommendation was in accordance with the original request made to the Government by the Dominion Dairy Conference that, as from the beginning of the 1943-44 season, dairy farm and factory costs as far as practicable be adjusted to the 1938-39 level. A further recommendation provided that the rate of these alliances be subject to annual review Wcl for that purpose the Governmenffwould appoint a committee constituted' similarly to the committee making the report. In the course of a discussion in the House of Representatives, Mr Wilkinson (Independent, Egmont) asked whether the committee set up to investigate the costs had agreed that no claim should be made for back payment to meet the costs of past seasons. The Minister of Marketing: “The question of back payments was never raised and the committee recommended the payment now agreed upon and which is to commence this season. The Dominion dairy conference agreed to that as well.”