BUTTER AND MEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 3

BUTTER AND MEAT

THE EXPORT POSITION,

(0.C.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

"From the advice we have received it would appear that the United Kingdom will take all our dairy produce," said the Minister of Marketing (Mr. Barclay), when he was asked to comment on an Australian report that the dairy industry there was being urged to supply' Britain with every pound of milk product available. "We have had no request from the United Kingdom for increased quantities, but we have asked dairy producers to carry on and to produce as much as they can under the existing disadvantages of fertiliser and labour shortages."

Mr. Barclay said that Britain was obtaining from New Zealand nearly all available supplies of dairy produce, and the position at the end of July, the finish of the dairying year, appeared to be that there would be no embarrassing surplus.

"The export position will be no worse than it was at the same time last year," the Minister said, discussing dairy produce and meat exports from the Dominion this season. The esitmate of the carry-over of meat for export was 78,000 tons, approximately the same as last season. The estimated overdraft.of the meat account with the Reserve Bank at the end of September was £5.250,000 and that of the dairy industry at the end of July £5,500,000.