THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 268, 12 November 1928, Page 4

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

.MILK POWDER EXPORT

AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS

to recent advices from Melpowder manufcacturers are up in arms against milk powder from New /Mland. Exports of this article from the Dommion to Australia have been as fol

Pounds. Value £. 95,980 2,148 ?2£g 221,772 4590 194,7 766,259 15,404 i« £ull J"*}? Powder. The trade Auckland and Wellington, mostly the former. An application for a damning duty of 3d per pound for the produce from 2\ew Zealand has been made to the Tariff Board by the Maffra Co-op-erative Company, Ltd., and the Gippsland Co-operative Company, Ltd., and the evidence given by witnesses on their behalf was that New Zealand milk powder had forced down the price of the local product and was a real detriment, not only to the sale of a comparable Australian product, but also to the livelihood of the Australian farmer. For the Maffra Company it was stated the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company. Ltd., manufactured 4000 tons of spray skim milk annually. Unless dumping was stopped, he was afraid manufacture of dried milk by his company would have to cease, because it could not be done at a profit. The rate of wages paid in the milk industry in New Zealand, as well as the price paid for skim milk, were understood to be much lower than in Australia. Already his company had been forced to refuse new supplies of milk owing to the competition set up by New Zealand. The Tariff Board has the matter under consideration.

KEEPING UP PRICE OF BUTTER. The Australian Stabilisation General Committee has decided that the levy be l\d a lb on all butter manufactured-and the bounty a lb on export butter for the year beginning January 1. This decision was reßu lk of a long discussion in which the Tasmanian representatives opposed any alteration in the present levy ancj bounty, while Queenland and New Wales urged that it be incerased to financial 3tatement showed , , ance sufficient to meet the •°mniittee s bounty obligations for the current y«*r.