DAIRY EXPORT TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 139, 16 June 1927, Page 12

DAIRY EXPORT TRADE

POOLING TO CEASE

THE BOARD'S DECISION

The Dairy Producers' Board rose at 1 p.m. to-day, having been in session since yesterday morning. It received a report of .the position in London as to New Zealand butter and cheese from ill. W. lorns, and to-day resumed discussion' of that, report (a summary of which appears.in "The Post" in another column in this issue).

Mr. T. C. Brash, secretary of the Dairy Produce Board, made the following statement to "The Post":—

The Dairy Board decided to-day that the pooling 1 of the returns for creamery butter should terminate . with butter-graded up to and in- , eluding- 80th' 'April; 1927, when the second creamery butter pool ends. .The pooling of cheese and whey but;ter returns ends with cheese and - whey butter graded up to and including 31st July, 1927. ';■'.-■■ So as to avoid delay in making advances with butter graded from Ist May onwards, the board will temporarily attend to drafts, invoices, etc., as in the past, unless daily com-. '. panics or owners of the produce advise the board or its agents that they •will themselves be attending to these details and 1 making alterations in destination or method of marketing. The board will continue to handle all bills of.lading and arrangements : for insurance, as-in the past. EFTECT OF DECISION. The effect of the above decision of the board is to abolish "absolute control" as it was understood, and, which became operative in September last. The board has already abolished price-fixing; it now abolishes pooling of produce. From 31st July next individual factories, it is understood in the trade, will have free marketing and the power to_ «ell free on board or to consign to any market as their directors decide. The result of this decision to abolish pooling, taken together with the abolition of price-fixing gave satisfaction, to those locally engaged in the export trade and representing British and •ther houses, as soon as the news, becamo known in Wellington as it did at lunch time to-day.

■Prom what could be gathered in the brief time available from business sources, not necessarily those through which dairy produce passes, the impression is that the board has. done the best thing possible towards recovery of the goodwill of. the British trade. Moreover, proof of this, it was predicted would be seen in a better reception in England of New Zealand butter and cheese when the new season begins, as It will in a couple of months. CO-OPEBATION OF TRADE. Another opinion was that the full co-operation of. the trade at Home with the producer in New Zealand in obtaining the best price the market could pay might be counted on. as certain. Au improvement in the prospects of the dairy industry might be confidently looked for now that the obnoxious features in control of the export trade in New Zealand dairy produce had been removed. . '

The chairman.of the Wtrd (Mr. William Grounds) ■when seen by a representative of this paper on the rising of the board said he was not prepared at that moment to say anything for publication. The announcement made above by t'pj secretary of the board, Mr. Brash, would speak for itself. Mr. Brash was unable to say more than direct producers' attention to the announcement.