MARKETS FOR N.Z.

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22478, 12 August 1938, Page 10

MARKETS FOR N.Z.

PROSPECTS IN THE FAR EAST NORTH CANTERBURY MAN** VIEWS [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, August 11. New Zealand’s failure to compel* with Australia in the marketing of dairy and other produce in the Far East was commented on by Mr K. P. H. Burbury, a prominent sheepfarmer. of Waiau, North Canterbury, who arrived at Auckland by the South Pacific Line steamer Tasman after making a short visit to the Netherlands Indies, British Malaya, arid French Indo-China. In all the countries he visited, Mr Burbury said, it was apparent that Australian butter and jam had gained a complete monopoly of the market. In spite .of this fact, he considered that any enterprise aiming at the thorough exploitation of the market with New Zealand goods could not fail to be rewarded. Admiration for the success achieved bythe Dutch in their eastern colonial administration was also expressed by Mr Burbury. The industry? efficiency and obvious contentment of the inhabitants of Java, he said, stood out in marked contrast to the social conditions prevailing in the neighbouring countries that were not under Dutch rule. An enlightened administration had seen the necessity for giving the natives plenty of work under good conditions. The cities were spotlessly clean, and every available acre of land appeared to be under productive cultivation. “Jt is remarkable to see men ploughing in rice fields,” he said. ‘‘Buffaloes are employed to drag ploughs through the fields. How *he animals or their masters could maks satisfactory progress and follow the furrows already ploughed, was a mystery to me lor very often the ploughman worked up to his armpits in water.” Mr Burbury, who is accompanied by his wife, son. and daughter, will leave the Tasman at Wellington to return home early next week