AUSTRALIAN FARMERS.
CONDITIONS IN DAIRYINC. /Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 26. Mr A. P. O’Shea (Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union) denies the suggestion of the Minister for Marketing (the Hon. W. Nash) that New Zealand dairy farmers are in an infinitely better position than the Australian farmers.. Reference to the third annual report of the equalisation committee, he said, showed that the average equalised price for butter In the last Australian season was 126 s 6d, equal to a pay-out of Is ljd and Is 2d, against Mr Nash’s official figure of 12.6 Gd: as the average pay-out in New Zealand last season.
The average equalisation rate per lb of cheese in Australia was 8.216 d against New Zealand’s 6.831 d. He emphasised that Australian dairy farmers’ costs were very much lower than in New Zealand. If any proof was needed o* this statement, one had only to look up the protests of New Zealand manufacturers against the flood of cheap imports from Australia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 41, 27 November 1937, Page 11
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