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(j) To take all such measures as may appear to the Dairy-produce Control Board to be necessary or desirable for the eradication, control, and prevention of diseases of dairy stock, other than the diseases scheduled in the Stock Act. (k) To terminate, on giving such notice as the Dairy-produce Control Board may deem reasonable, any contract for the sale of dairy-produce intended for consumption in New Zealand. (I) To make special levies on dairy-produce graded for export at any port and to disburse the amount of any such levy to the owners of the factories grading through that port in accordance with the grading-points allotted to each parcel of dairy-produce graded. (m) To have power to purchase and sell, either for the local market or for export, milk, cream, and dairy-produce, and to subsidize or compensate any person, firm, or company in respect of any such produce as it may require to be made available for opening new markets, developing existing markets, or regulating markets ; (») To recommend to the Government and to advise the Government on any regulations to be made under the Dairy Industry Act, the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, and any other Act affecting dairy-produce, subject to the powers of the suggested Council of Production and Trade. 284. Specific Amendments to Present Dairy-produce Export Control Act : The foregoing powers are intended to be additional to those set out in the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923. Amendments to that Act are required, as set out hereunder : —■ (a) Title of Act (section 1) to omit the word " Export." (b) Section 2 no longer required, and may be repealed. (c) Define, in section 3, " dairy produce " as " butter, cheese, and other products processed or manufactured from milk or cream " ; define " producers " as " persons carrying on business as suppliers of milk or cream to factories for the purpose of being processed or manufactured into any kind of dairy-produce," omitting the limiting reference to " export." (d) Amend section 4 in accordance with this report. (e) Amend section Bin accordance with this report; and provide also for the Board electing a Deputy Chairman. (/) Amend subsection (2) of section 9 by substituting "three" for "four," and amend subsection (3) by substituting " four " for " five." (g) Insert new section giving Board power to appoint standing committees and to delegate to such committees such of its powers as may be permitted by regulations, and giving Board power to co-opt expert advisers to assist it or any committee in its deliberations. (h) Amend section 11 by deleting from subsection (1) all words after " from time to time " ; and by deleting the word " other " from subsection (2). (i) Amend sections 13 and 16 as set out in this report, so as to give the Board full powers of control over the production, manufacture, processing, distribution, and sale of dairyproduce within New Zealand, in addition to the existing powers given in subsections (1) to (6) of section 13 and in section 16 relative to produce for export ; also repeal subsections (7) and (8) of section 13, and provide in lieu thereof for power to determine any contracts, as set out in this report. (j) Amend section 15 to cover levy on all butter and cheese for local and export trades, and delete the words limiting amount to one-eighth and one-sixteenth of a penny ; also provide for collection by Board of levy on local sales from the companies or persons owning factories ; also exempt from levy any butter and cheese manufactured on any farm, provided the quantity so manufactured in any year ending 30th June does not exceed a tonnage to be determined by the Board ; also provide that the occupier of any farm dairy shall submit to Board such statistical statements and other information as the Board may require relative to the manufacture of butter and cheese ; also amend subsection (2) consequentially ; also give Board power to charge commission on sales effected by it. (k) Amend section 17 where necessary to give effect to the proposals contained in this report ; also provide for Board arranging superannuation scheme for its staff ; also provide power to invest surplus moneys. (I) Provide that no producer may cease, without the consent of the Dairy-produce Control Board (unless he ceases to be a producer), to supply milk or cream produced in his dairy to the dairy factory to which he is supplying milk or cream at the time of the passing of this Act, if that factory is prepared to receive the same ; also that any producer shall supply the milk or cream produced in his dairy to such dairy factory as the Dairy-produce Control Board may from time to time direct; also that no producer may transfer part of his supply from one dairy factory to another without the consent of the Dairy-produce Control Board. (m) Amend section 2 of 1924 Amendment Act to cover milk and cream. (n) Provide penalty section for breaches. (o) Provide such other repeals and amendments as may be necessary to give effect to the proposals contained in this report. It is intended that the Dairy-produce Control Board shall exercise its functions subject to the overriding authority of the Council of Production and Trade. This, however, is dependent on that Council being given similar authority over the other Produce Boards.

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