GREAT BRITAIN'S CHEESE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1924, Page 16

GREAT BRITAIN'S CHEESE

MOSTLY SUPPLIED BY NEW ZEA

LAND AND CANADA.

At an informal conference at Toronto between membors of a New Zealand delegation investigating the marketing of dairy products in Canada and the executive of the United Dairymen Cooperative, Limited, it was pointed out that New Zealand and Canada supply 84 per cent, of tho cheese reaching Great Britain, and that if joint action could he secured between the producers in the two countries as to total production, shipment, etc., it should be possible to so feed the British market as to prevent the glute which every now and then have a demoralising effect on prices. It was agreed that as soon as the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board has decided upon its sellint;" policy it will further discuss the possibility of joint action with the directors of tho United Dairymen Co-opera-tive, Limited.

Owing to the difference between conditions in New Zealand and Canada tho directors of the United Dairymen Co-op-erative have felt that up to the present public auction sales of cheese ensured the keenest competition, -and have been following this method in disposing cf their products. New Zealand, being 12,000 miles uwav from the Britiilt ma.rket, has found* it impossible to conduct such sale?. Members ot the delegation were <iuilu inlereaLcd in securing information about these tales.