BUTTER EXPORTS FROM EUROPE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21148, 26 April 1934, Page 11

BUTTER EXPORTS FROM EUROPE

BIG SUBSIDIES i | DUTCH AND DANISH • FIGURES : C | I | N.Z. COMPLAINT IN BKITAIN I i (UNITED PKKSS ASSOCIATION-D* ELECTIUC I TELEGRAPH —COI'YMGIIT.) | (Received April 25, 7.40 p.m.) ! LONDON, April 24. Mr Dynes Fulton and Mr H. E. Davis, respectively vice-chairman and London manager of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control ' Board, addressing the ! Parliamentary Agricultural Com-1, ; mittee, said that Dutch merchants I were quoting butter to Dutch con-, isumcrs at the equivalent of 190s aj.hundredweight, while the export!' price to Great Britain was 50s i'.o.b. * '; Denmark's price for domestic con- ] I sumption was 215 kroner for 100 ' J kilos compared with 123 kroner j i f.o.b. for Britain. ; They said that New Zealand did ■ not subsidise exports. The Dominion was quite able and readv to | < compete with foreign butter-produc- i ing countries on an economic basis, | but there were foreign subsidies': which did much more than wipe out. < Ottawa, and which placed New Zea- J i.land in an impossible position. ! Mr Dvnes Fulton said he i Inised British rights to the home 'market, but emphasised that New i Zealand was 100 per cent. British. , | He asked for an opportunity to de- ; \ velop reciprocal trade with New j Zealand's only outlet for produce,' ; namely. Great Britain. j SYMPATHY KOIi N.Z IN j j LONDON j

j "DISASTROUS EXTENT" OF ! TRADE RESTRICTION ; (Received April 25. 8.14 p.m.) . LONDON, April 24. j i The "Journal of Commerce," in a \ leading article referring to New Zealand exports, and the "forthcoming 'visit of the Dairy Board to London," :savs the application of restrictions means grave trouble to New Zealand, ■ which Great Britain should serious-! 'ly consider, since it will restrict New j Zealand's trade with Britain to a ; disastrous extent. Even if better i : prices are obtained for the goods ac- i itually sent, large dairying tracts will j !be abandoned, increasing unemploy-, ment.

EFFECT OF QUOTAS ! ON AUSTRALIA

i \ MR HUUCK OPTIMISTIC I C'Ol NTUV'S (iOOD POSITION | I (Received April 25, 7.55 p.m.) i SYDNEY, April 25. | 1 Mr S. M. Bruce (High Commis- ■ sioner I'or Australia), speaking at aj dinner, said that Australia was toiday in an incomparably better position than any other country in the ' world. If that dreadful thing, a restriction of some exports, was to come, it was not going to be a case of going back, but of standing still on the peak point, with a possibility | that after another two years—perihaps even sooner so far as Britain ! was concerned— they ought to be '; able to enter into new arrangements : ; with that country, by which they | 'would be getting an expanding share \ ! in the British market for the things Australia exported. I

FIANNA FAIL'S VIEW

! FREE STATE COMMENT ON SITUATION ; LONDON, April 23. | Mr de Valera's organ, the "Irish i Press," in a leading article, referring lo Mr Stanley Bruce's speech at Canberra on Friday, says, " Australia has now learned officially iwhat Irish farmers have realised for ; some time, that the much-boasted l British market no longer exists. ' "Leaders of the United Ireland party would do well to heed Mr Bruce's words, and also to take a lesson from the experience ot New Zealand which the White Paper showed was lulled by the polite words of British Imperialist statesmen and was slower than the Free State to learn the lesson of a policy of going, hat in hand, to England. New Zealand left herself open to the abrupt snub by Mr J. H. : Thomas."