COMING RIVAL IN DAIRYING

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20988, 17 October 1933, Page 8

COMING RIVAL IN DAIRYING

NEW ZEALANDER'S VIEW OF AUSTRALIA KEEN SEARCH 1-OK MARKETS WELLINGTON, October 16. The opinion that in Australia New Zealand was going to have a serious rival in butter and cheese production was expressed by Mr W. Crawford Burt, formerly managing director of A. and T. Burt, Ltd., on his return by the Marama today after 12 months' residence in New South Wales, Mr Burt said tin: output of butter for export was increasing by leaps and bounds, arid now Australians were turning their attention to cheese. New Zealand would have to watch her step, for Australia was a prospective producer in a very large way in a market which was already over-supplied. Mr Burt said the feeling throughout Australia at present was one of buoyant optimism. There was no doubt in anybody's mind but that Australia had turned the corner. "At the same lime, Australia is showing an alert, commercial mind in seeking markets for her goods other than in Britain," he continued. "The figures showing the export to the Orient of butter, flour, and jams are really surprising. She has live agents in Java, Singapore, India, China, and Japan, and they are straining every nerve to create trading relations with those countries. It is all nonsense to say that prospects for trade do not exist owing to the poverty of the coolies. All the people of Java, China, and Japan are not coolies, any more than all the people of Britain are farm labourers. There is limitless wealth in these countries, and if Australia can produce the goods they want there is an open avenue for trade. "This is a market New Zealand has entirely neglected up to the present. I still think there is a chance for New Zealand's meat, butter, and cheese in the Bast; but the trade will need fostering by accredited agents, who know both countries. We have by no means shown an alert mind in investigating the possibilities of trade with the East."