Macamore Co-operative Agricultural and Dairy Society, Limited, was registered in the register of manufacturing exporters and, unlike registered creameries, was entitled to acquire cream separated on farms and manufacture it into butter. The special concession which allowed the society to apply the word "creamery" to such butter was provided for in the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 (Section 42). The period for which this concession could be granted was limited to three years from the passing of the Act. Power was taken, however, to extend the concession for successive periods of three years in the following enactments:—The Dairy Produce (Amendment) Act, 1927 (whole Act); the Dairy Produce Act, 1931 (Section 10); the Dairy Produce (Amendment) Act, 1934 (Section 8).
This Macamore society has recently been amalgamated with another co-operative concern known as the Inch Co-operative Creamery and it has been converted into a separating station or separating plant to serve the central creamery at Inch. It is not lawful for a separating station to collect cream that has been separated on the farmer's premises and as it is desirable to continue that practice for a certain period, I have found it necessary to introduce these proposals so as to enable me to allow the practice that has been followed at Macamore when it was registered, as I have described, to continue, even though it is now a separating station and part and parcel of the Inch Co-operative Creamery.
