MARKETS NEEDED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 13

MARKETS NEEDED

Increased Output of > Dairy Produce POSSIBLE RESTRICTION By Telegraph.—Press Association. Stratford, Nov. 17, While expressing satisfaction with the increase in production, the Hon. K. Masters, Minister of Industries and Commerce, when opening the Stratford show to-day, said the question of what to do with the produce merited serious consideration. The farmers of Britain were probably having the most anxious time for many years. One could not but express sympathy with them in the unfortunate’ position in which they found themselves. Relief had been given as a result of the Ottawa agreements both as regards protection and quantitative restrictions on foreign produce. This has now been extended to include for a period Dominion meats. Having received a protection for meat, and in view of the tremendous increase in dairy produce going to Britain, a possible quantitative restriction might be demanded for foreign and Dominion supplies. « An increased production of butter and cheese estimated at 35,000 tons for New Zealand and Australia this year was all going to the British market. Unless New Zealand, like Australia, attempted to find new markets she was going to be well up against it Speaking of the necessity of finding new markets in the East, Mr. Masters combated a statement made by Mr. W. Goodfellow at a Taranaki meeting on Monday that no adequate market was available in the East, as the teeming millions there were unable to buy. It was true that the teeming millions in the East were in the main poverty-stricken, said Mr. Masters. “However, the fact remains that the Eastern countries last year took millions of pounds’ worth of milk products, made up of cheese, , butter, and powdered and condensed milk. Those responsible for the marketing of New Zealand produce should use their utmost endeavours to secure a share of that trade. As each year passes opportunities are more difficult to find. The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company is at present supplying several Eastern markets. That company is already sending butter and milkpowder, etc., to the East. “I say there is a market for butter, cheese, wool, meat, hides, skins and fruit,” Mr. Masters added. “I want to impress upon the New Zealand farmer not to be content to put all his eggs in one basket, more especially when our principal market is rapidly being over-supplied.” z