DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 4 May 1923, Page 8

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT.

REGULAR SHIPMENTS NECESSARY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Thursday. At the conference of the Wellington Provincial Dairy Farmers' Union, the Mayor, Mr. Nathan, who formally opened the conference, said the dairy industry was suffering from irregular shipments. On April 30 there were in the Dominion :ili".(X)(; boxes of butter and 74,000 crates of cheese. This produce mould reach the London market at a time when other countries in Kurope would be producing tinder conditions which would enable them to place their output on the market at the lowest cost. He advocated fortnightly slnpments. Ships might mako six trips, whereas now they were making four because they had to cail at the smaller ports on the coast. This was a costly business. He would prefer to see the produce shipped direct from the main ports, which would enable the vest methods of handling and dispatch to be employed. He urged co-operation between dairy farmers aiid merchants, remarking upon the fact that the merchant class never had an opportunity of assisting the dairy farmer.