N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCTS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 7

N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCTS

Search For New Markets

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 22.

The chairman of the Dairy Products Marketing Commission (Mr R. A. Candy) said at the week-end that the commission was “intensifying its contacts abroad as part of a vigorous programme of probing the world’s markets for dairy products.”

A member of the commission end the assistant export sales manager (Mr H. G. Jones) would leave next month for East African and Asian countries, Mr Candy said. v They would be aceempaniecfcvby representatives of the Government and the Meat Producers Board in visits to Mauritius, South Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Northern and South Rhodesia and the eastern Belgian Congo, and from there would proceed on their own to Kenya, India, Ceylon and Singapore. They would be away about two months.

“The trade with all thes* 1 territories is carried on by private firms in New Zealand which act as agents for the commission and which sell through firms established in the dairy products distributive trades in the countries concerned,” Mr Candy said. “The Commission, however, itself keeps in close touch with all the markets, passes information to the agents, assists in prospecting for trade, and helps to smooth out any difficulties.

Mr Candy said the commission was maintaining wide-ranging contacts with overseas markets. In April, the general manager (Mr P. B. Marshall) had obtained business in the United States and then gone on to the United Kingdom. Shortly he would spend a period in Canada and the United States on his way back to New Zealand. Last March, a representative from the commission’s London office had visited Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, and the western Belgian Congo to renew contacts there and promote sales.

Last year, the commission’s export sales manager (Mr S. T Murphy), had visited Japan, Hong Kong (where he had met representatives of the Government of the Chinese Republic) and the Philippines.