DIRECT DEALING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1936, Page 12

DIRECT DEALING

CO-OPERATIVE TRADE

"We want to deal direct with Australian producers, and cut out the expensive middleman," Mr. John Penny, director of the Co-operative Wholesale Society of the United Kingdom told the Sydney Agricultural Scientists1 and Technologists' Association. . Mr. Penny is visiting Australia with Mr. Williams, another director, and Mr. H. Marsland. who is to become the society's Australian representative. "We want all your primary products, in large quantities, and particularly we want to cut out that 2£ per cent, commission," he said. Mr. Penny said his society had an annual turnover of nearly £1,000,000. "In 1936 we shall want 71,000 cases of Australian eggs, and 500.000 lambs, with wheat, fresh, dried, and tinned fruits. "If we can break down your high tariff walls against our retail trade, we can provide more work and better wages for our 50,000 employees." Mr. A. H. E. McDonald, president of the Agricultural Scientists' and Technologists' Association, said ■ that a proposition from such a society as Mr. Penny's tended to form a basis of thought between consumers and producers.