COMPETITION MUST BE FACED.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1927, Page 12

COMPETITION MUST BE FACED.

::-«; By the application of the Paterson plan, I Sg|those engaged in the dairying industry in itgj;Australia have, improved their aggregate j.jr'income by £2,000,000 a year. That is jgjbemg done, remarks "The Australasian," feJbecause of the control exercised in the .cgVhome market, as is attempted with dried .Rgirmts and sugar. Those industries, howS eVf r ' are sanding steadily, and the diffi- "^^ v .o£,. mamtaining prices within AustSX tra-lia: ls "kely to become a problem of in:.pKcreasing intensity. That is already being with sugar in Queensland, ,cg«vpnere the reclamations on account of sales have so reduced the price iggjjfcxed for sugar to Australian consumers ; .jg_sttiat planters are exceedingly apprehensive ;S=ebout the market outlook. The dairying also has to be prepared for sev;MHerity of competition abroad. It has had •«2.'a taste lately of what happens when Cter''swP&nyy f°r instance, has such a favourable ;j#;Season that it becomes less dependent than i=rj : usual upon Scandinavian supplies. The '.nr'excess of output from Denmark then flows 'itS* 0 *^c JjOl)don market, and with Irish and UgjEuropean supplies, largely dominates the disposition. Lu,t season Irish exports to ■githe United Kingdom, amounting to 27,000 !~ptonsi were the heaviest for years. That {gfealso was the position with Denmark. If '"«§'Australia and New Zealand each had sent jßSsupplies on the 1924-25 scale a difficult mar;;giet situation would have arisen. How■'fl|ever, the outstanding fact is the value to i.igptodncing countries of the open market ;"|2s.;provjded in the United Kingdom under ifgits -free-trade policy. Experience with j-gsljutter shipments from Australia to Can-".^-Vada. demonstrates the . difficuly of getting '^- past-; the Customs House if powerful vested dairying interests use their influence in politics to bar the entry of Commonwealth products.