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To Butter Manufacturing Companies—continued d. d. Factory Costs Allowance, 1943-44 .. .. .. .. 0-269 Additional Factory Costs Allowance, 1945-46 0-047 O-316 Factory Wages Allowance, 1943-44 .. .. 0-022 Additional Factory Wages Allowance, 1944-45-46 .. 0-073 O-095 Making Total Factory Allowances (for 1946/47 season) .. .. 0-411 per lb. of butterfat in milk or cream supplied to a butter factory and manufactured into butter in that factory. Note. —(a)' The allowances cannot be claimed in respect of cream or milk used for any purpose other than butter-making. (6) The farm costs allowance is claimed by dairy companies on behalf of suppliers to whom they are required to pass on the payment. (c) The factory costs allowance is also payable on whey cream used in the manufacture of whey butter. (d) In the case of supply of cream to a butter company by a milk powder, a processed milk, or a cheese company, the butter company should not claim the farm costs allowance on such supply, but should claim for the butter company factory costs allowance. To Cheese Manufacturing Companies d. d. Farm Costs Allowance, 1943-44 .. .. .. 0-767 Additional Farm Costs Allowance, 1944-45 .. . . . . 0-650 1945-46 .. .. 0-497 1946-47 .. .. 0-761 2-675 Farm Labour Allowance, 1944-45 .. .. .. 1-470 Additional Farm Labour Allowance, 1945-46 .. .. .. 0-520 1946-47 .. 0-520 2-510 Making Total Farm Allowances (for 1946/47 season) .. .. 5-185 per lb. of butterfat in milk received over the factory stage for cheese- == making (no deduction for loss in whey) and manufactured into cheese. Factory Costs Allowance, 1943-44 .. .. .. 0-299 Additional Factory Costs Allowance, 1945-46 .. .. .. 0-020 0-319 Factory Wages Allowance, 1943-44 .. .. .. .. 0-076 Additional Factory Wages Allowances, 1944-45-46 .. .. 0-350 O-426 Making Total Factory Allowances (for 1946/47 season) of 0-745 per lb. butterfat contained in milk received over the factory stage for ™ cheesemaking (no deduction for loss in whey) and manufactured into cheese in that factory. Note. —(a) The allowances cannot be claimed in respect of milk used for any purpose other than cheesemaking. (6) The farm costs allowance is claimed by dairy companies on behalf of suppliers to whom they are required to pass on the payment. (c) In the case of a cheese company which separates milk and supplies the resultant cream to a butter company, the cheese company should make the claim for the farm costs allowance on the butterfat contained in the milk as received over the factory stage, and the butter company should make the claim for the butter factory costs allowance. Additional Wages Allowance for Small Companies.—ln order to compensate the smaller companies for the loss of certain concessions previously enjoyed by them an extra wages cost allowance of -Id. per lb. butterfat will be paid to any company whose output for the season is less than 250 tons of butter or 200 tons of cheese. Thus in the case of these small butter companies the total wages allowance is -195 d. per lb. butterfat, and in the case of these small cheese companies the total wages allowance is •526 d. per lb. of butterfat.

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