DOMINION’S PRODUCE IN LONDON

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 221, 19 June 1928, Page 10

DOMINION’S PRODUCE IN LONDON

“RECEIVES FAIR TREATMENT FROM BUYERS” INVESTIGATION BY SIR JAMES GUNSON Dominion Special Service. Auckland, June 18. A suggestion that New Zealand farmers should confine their attention principally to production, and leave the marketing of their goods to merchants in England, at whose hands the Dominion had received fair treatment, was made b.v Sir James Gunson on his return to-day from a tour abroad. “I made a point of closely examining the marketing of New Zealand's produce in Tooley Street, and I am quite satisfied that we are getting failtreatment from the buyers in England,” said Sir James. “It is foolish for anybody at this end to think it is possible for us to control the outlets for the distribution of our produce in the United Kingdom. We have been given the highest price consistent with the world's parity of values, and buyers in England seek only the right to be left, t buy where it suits them best, and to operate their businesses in their own way.”

Sir Janies Gunson said serious competition from Denmark and further threatened competition from the Bailie States were serious factors to he considered by New Zealand’s dairy farmers. In his travels tlfrough Spain, Sir Janies found a potential market for New Zealand butter, which he thought would bear the test of thorough investigation. At Corunna there was a port on the shipping route from New Zealand, and ho found a desire among merchants to obtain New Zea land butter. Spain had to import considerable quantities of butter, and was now obtaining its supplies from Europe.. Sir James added that Corunna had railway facilities, and insulated vans were available.