ZONING IN WAIKATO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 5

ZONING IN WAIKATO.

DAIRY FARMERS CONCERNED. MORRINSVILLE, July 29. Stating that he always had been, and still was, opposed to “the buying and selling of suppliers,” Mr J. fi. Leeson, chairman of directors of the Morrinaville Cooperative Dairy Company, Limited, commented strongly at the annual meeting of the company on the policy of zoning supplies of cream for dairy factories. Mr Leeson who has been ongaged in dairying at Morrinsvillc for 34 years, contended that every farmer should have the right to say which dairy company he wished to supply. Waikato farmers had experienced an amalgamation of dairy com panies in the years following the war, and as a consequence of dissatisfaction the Mor. rinsville company and other -dairy- companies had been formed in 1922. Mithout competition between dairy companies there would not be the same service to suppliers as existed to-day. Mr Leeson was sceptical about tho prospects of a reduction in costs and an improvement in quality resulting from the zoning of supplies of cream. In a closely-settled district like the Waikato tho cream lorries were all carrying full loads as it was. The meeting passed a resolution expressing concern at tho possibility of any _of the present suppliers of tho Morrinsvillc company being ordered lo supply any other company, and the possibility of the company losing the right of operating for new suppliers on present service routes. The board of directors was authorised to take all necessary steps to preserve the interests of tho company.