HANDLING NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 10

HANDLING NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The suggestions put forward by "Importer" in today's "Post" are the very things which cripple bur exports. Does Denmark allow interested outsiders to handle their products! Certainly not.. They market their own supply, regularly too. Until New Zealand does the same, i.e., regulate the shipments and control the , sales) to long will we receive margarind prices. A case happened recently. When there was a glut of butter on the market some Argentine butter, together with Siberian and colonial butter, wa« pur-' chased. These were liber&lly mixed with margarine and labelled "British*" I also saw a shipment of meat which had been purchased and stored for months, then put on the market as New Zealand lamb, which it wag of course, but the public were not aware of the facts. The only way for New Zealand products is to regulate the arrival of shipments and see, like Denmark does, that the products go straight on the market. With properlyregulated methods there is no reason why our butter and meat should not bring the producer heapi more without importers.—l am, etc., B. STEWABT. January 28. ,