AUSTRALIAN BUTTER PROBLEM.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 66, 19 March 1928, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER PROBLEM.

Mr. G. C. Boehme (Sydney) moved at the Australian Chambers of Commerce Conference, that, as the dumping duty charged by South Africa vn Australian butter is preventing the shipment direct of such butter to that country, the Fedcr..l authorities ascertain to what extent the method of administering the Dairy Produce Act is responsible for the partial embargo placed on Australian butter by South Africa. He said that South Africa could buy Australian butter in London more cheaply than in Australia, and pay the dumping duty. He thought that such anomalies should be remedied. Mr. G. A. Parkes (Sydney) seconded. Mr. M. J. Lyons (Brisbane) suggested that Australian butter lost its identity, in London. Mr. F. W. Heritage (Hobart) said that the prices of butter were arranged by the stabilisation committee, which was not subject to an Act. It was a voluntary arrangement. Articles could be bought more cheaply elsewhere than in Australia, and if those industries were bolstered up, why not the butter industry?" The motion was lost. ;