Dairy Sales To Japan May Rise

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30533, 31 August 1964, Page 11

Dairy Sales To Japan May Rise

fiV.Z P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) TOKYO, August 30. Sir Andrew Linton yesterday ended 10 days of talks with Japanese Government and agriculture officials with “every possibility of increasing New’ Zealand’s dairy trade.”

“New Zealand dairy products are undoubtedly highly regarded in Japan,” said Sir Andrew Linton, who is chairman of the Dairy Production and Marketing Board. He and the board’s general manager, Mr P. B. Marshall, inspected some of Japan’s “highly efficient” manufacturing concerns to which New Zealand supplies raw dairy material for processing. “We have also undertaken on our visit to assist technically with Japan’s agricul-

turai development problems •hould assistance be reoured,” he said. Sir Andrew Linton said that although the growth of Zealand’s dairy trade to the Japanese market was •Netted by quarantine regu“t'ons arid tariffs, it was -ed that with the increased demand and Japan’s limited ■A Production a more liberal M P icy on imports might be W •eooted. ”here was considerable B ,J »d will towards New Zea- , d and a desire to raise the if'els of trade between the , countries, he added. Mr Andrew Linton and Mr ■“Marshall will leave by air for

New Zealand today by way of Hong Kong and Australia. They expect to reach Wellington about September 7.