"FROM BAD TO WORSE"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 10

"FROM BAD TO WORSE"

NEW ZEALAND UNPOPULAR

A SERIOUS POSITION

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 14th March, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, 12th March.

The colonial butter market is going from bad to worse. There has been a fair inquiry for Australian, not only for the Home trade, but also for the United States and Canada, to which markets about 15,000 boxes of Australian have been shipped from London within the last fortnight. But the demand for New Zealand butter has been so bad that the bulk of arrivals for some time past have been placed in cold store, with the result that the quantity of New Zealand butter stored is estimated at about 400,000 boxes. This is a serious position, in view of the near approach of the spring and the prospect of large supplies of the Home make, as well as butter from the Continent.

Traders here attribute this unsatisfactory state of affairs largely to the action of the New Zealand Control Board. Their opinion was voiced by the chairman at the annual meeting of the London Provision Exchange, when he said New Zealand control was unpopular in its inception, and it had continued unpopular ever since, and it was not likely to outlive its unpopularity. Its action had- been both autocratic and bureaucratic.

"It prevents goods from reaching the consumer in the freshest and best condition, and it must have gone far to nullify any good effect that advertising Empire goods may have produced, at any rate so far as New Zealand is concerned. ''