DECLINE IN EXPORTS.
HAWKE'S BAT CONCERN. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NAPIER, this day. "Every primary production organisation in New Zealand must be called on to do its utmost to bring about increased production to compensate Great Britain for the loss overnight of one of her most valuable markets and sources of supply in Denmark," said Mr. H. J. McKeesik, addressing the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Union. Mr. McKeesik informed the meeting that New Zealand to-day had 4000 fewer dairy farmers than four years ago. The value of butter, cheese and pig exports, he said, had declined by £5,204,000 in the past three years. Pig exports alone had declined by 100,000 carcases. Ten thousand farmers were urgently required back on the land to meet the present conditions.
• The position which had arisen wae a grave one and the time had arrived when much greater effort was needed to meet Britain's loss of Danish supplies.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 93, 19 April 1940, Page 9
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