"MUST GET TOGETHER"

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 12

"MUST GET TOGETHER"

DOMINIONS' FARMERS

SUPPLIES TO U.K.

REGULATION QUESTION

(United Press Association —By Electric : Telegraph—Copyright.) ' . (Received April 5, 3 p.m.) v SYDNEY, This Day. »The agreement reached at the' Em» A pire Producers' Conference is regarded as a compromise on the proposals ' made by Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, following a conference of leaders of the delegations. •

Mr. W. W. MulhoUand.(New_ Zealand), in moving a series of resolutions which' were ultimately carried, said that the getting, together of the' Empire producers in effective organisations might and could mean a .very great deal to them. The Empire was so situated that it was particularly fortunate in having a year-round supply of the most important produce it con-" sumejl, but it was^not so fortunatelysituated in regard to the actual marketing of produce. ■ Naturally there will be a continuous supply of all pro- \ ducts going to the United Kingdom market in a stream very closely 'approximating the market demand.. Actually,in; one season there -Nverebver'SU^. plies' ;and Irr'ahbther lesser "supplies; ' with the result that quite frequently.... the price that the producer received was depressed, however, no advantage accrued to the consumers because^ almost invariably^ market movements . resulted in the appearance of specula- ■ tors, who took up the slacks and1 mada quite a bit oi money out. of it.■■:< It-is therefore in thei interests of the con- , sumer, as well, as the producer, thaf supplies to the United- Kingdom market should be regulated.

. There was also the point that a regulated market could absorb more than one in which supplies -fluctuated. ( It •was also important that the regulation of supplies should be handled by tha producers in the. producers' interests. There had to be a "get together" movement among the Dominions' farmers which would take some little time to accomplish, but-while that was a difficulty he did not wish to minimise, h« did not think it was a difficulty which could-not be overcome./ '\ \