THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 15

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

ON THE TJP-GRAJQE

pOOLINii SCHEME ADVOCATED.

(By Telesr.ipu. —Own Correspondent.)

HAMILTON, Friday

j_ r . \V. Goodfellow (managing director of the N.Z. Dairy Association), addressing a meeting of his suppliers today* expressed himself confident as to jjjg" future of the dried milk industry. •'I had every opportunity," he said, "when at Home of investigating the position, and I am confident that within five years we will he able to produce the milk powder required. At present we are in the hands of the economic noslfion at Home, but as that improves ~-c are bound to experience a heavy demand for the high grade powder we are manufacturing."

Mr. Good fellow added that when but-t-r was high in price there was a good ("cniiind for margarine, so that, in turn, _ big demand set in for their powder.

Tlcforring to business development

, ;in- the past three years, he said that j.i that ncriod their butter factory capacity had been increased by 50 per cent. !t was a gigantic undertaking.

To-day the output of the N_s. Dairy Co. was more than the total exports of butter from New Zealand in 1914. They now had to sit down and stop capital expenditure for twelve or eighteen months. He anticipated paying a bonus on the current season. -

Referring to the control and marketing of dairy produce and the recent slump in butter, Mr. Goodfellow said it was not until the merchants- came in. that the market found its bottom. It had, in fact, become stabilized and had, he was pleased to say, been going up ever since. "All this. - ' declared Mr. Good fellow, ■'demonstrates the necessity for some national organisation. It is very desirable that something, like a butter pool, or some such scheme should be set going, so as to enable effectual control in London and New Zealand over the .whole of the butter and cheese exported from this country.' Such a scheme had been prepared, and would be submitted to the directors of co-operative dairy Mimpaniea at convenient centres during the next two or three weeks."