Importer’s Practical Aid To N.Z. Dairy Farmers

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28447, 29 November 1957, Page 17

Importer’s Practical Aid To N.Z. Dairy Farmers

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 28. Novel. l> ut practical, support for o,e dairy farmers of New Zealand js beinK provided by a Taranaki gjnunercial firm. The firm operates extensively throughout New Zealand and has important connexions in England from which country importations to New Zealand have been made for many years. So disturbed is the managing director of the firm over the British policy in permitting the dumping of heavy quantities of European dairy produce on the British market that he has sent tft following letter to one of his English connexions:— "With reference to the en(losed order, we feel that as

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from r d nn? X 1 ? 8 dalry Products rhX£? t nta coun tries at the cheapest price, we also must put aside sentiment and purchase our requirements on the same basis. _ ’Therefore, if England is still permitting the unrestricted import.dairy P ro <iucts from the Continent when you receive this order, we shall be obliged if you will procure these goods from the cheapest source, consistent with ul'4m t a 5 te bUt X P in mind that the ultimate cost to us will be eovfromd th y TT h ® follow ing duties: from the United Kingdom free: from other countries, 15 per cent. “In other words, as England today is giving us no consideration with regard to our dairy produce so we regretfully instruct you to give no preference to English manufacturers, but buy in the best market.

.. “' Su .re ly we ought to come to the aid of our dairy farmers in tneir present predicament,” said the managing director today. “If all importers in New Zealand were to adopt the attitude I have taken and advise their United Kingdom supply houses accordingly it must bring home to the people of the United Kingdom that this is not a one-sided business. “Perhaps they would then take steps to let their politicians know that New Zealand is not going to take this sort of thing lying down, and that they cannot have it both ways.”