N.Z. BUTTER AND CHEESE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 10

N.Z. BUTTER AND CHEESE

TOTAL OF 285,000 TONS EXPORTED

ESTIMATE GIVEN FOR 1950-51 SEASON

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 30. Jfew Zealand exported 285,000 tons Of faultier and cheese in the 1950-51 season, \ with a total value of £60,000,(500. This estimate was given by the craairman of the New Zealand Dairy Products Marketing Commission (Mr W. Kfarshall) at the annual conference of\ the New Zealand Dairy Board to-daw. Mr Marshall said that the estimated net surplus nn the industry account for the year £4,490,000, bringing the balance in \the account up to £22,940,000. Saleks of butter and cheese to countries xputside the United Kingdom realised £ii520.000 above the guaranteed price paiqS out internally for that produce, j and brought £1,320,000 more in price than would have been earned the produce been sold at the rats' ruling under the contract with Britaifi. New Zealand dairAproduce was sold to 46 countries, including Canada, Ireland, France, and Germany, said Mr Marshall. This season! the commission would have the right fto sell up to 15 per cent, of the New/ Zealand export surplus to countries (other than Britain, but it did not of (necessity follow that the whole of thaft amount could be thus sold. \ A promising start had peen made on sales to the United States, he continued, but the United States Congress in July had, against the of the Administration, passed legislation giving power to prohibit th<e import of butter (and certain otheif products). The first order made/ under this legislation, said Mr Marshall, had prohibited entirely the import of butter. Imports of cheese were heavily restricted. Fortunately, it hadi been possible to get buttermilk excluded from the ban. • Mr Marshall said he proposed to visit the United States soonk in an attempt to improve New ’ Zealand’s chances of selling dairy produce there Because Australia would have less dairy produce for export thfl? season. New Zealand might be able' to sell more and at a higher price to some of the British countries hitherto known as “programme” countries, sfaid Mr Marshall. However, if the commission could not sell as it wished to the United States or Canada this seasorA then it could not dispose of the whole of the permissible 15 per cent, ouftside the United Kingdom, and would?certainly ®°‘ obtain the same ex/ess over Lnited Kingdom prices as it did last aeason, he concluded.