BUTTER SHIPMENTS
QUOTA NOT ADOPTED
An Australian cablegram., suggesting that the Australian.' Dairy Board was willing to restrict butter shipments to the extent of 20 per cent, provided the Now Zealand Board was prepared to do likewise, has caused misapprehension in some districts, where it is felt that the quota principle of restriction of shipments has been adopted. This is not the case. It was made clear at a recent meeting addressed by Mr. lorns, chairman of the New Zealand Daily Board, that all the Australian Board asked for was that 20 per cent, of this season's manufacture of butter should be withheld from .shipment, for a few months so that arrivals in England could be spread more evenly over the twelve months. The reason for the suggested regulations is that, the bulk of the manufacture of butter in both Australia and New Zealand is during relatively few months of'the year, and that immediate shipment of butter as it is manufactured causes a glut on the English market. By spreading the arrivals as evenly as <yossiblo ovct the twelve months improved prices should result, , , - '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 10
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184BUTTER SHIPMENTS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 10
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