BUTTER PRODUCTION

Evening Star, Issue 18670, 26 June 1924, Page 6

BUTTER PRODUCTION

THE MARKETING PROBLEM. NEW ZEALAND’S METHODS APPROVED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY. Juno 26. (Received Jane 26, at 9.30 a.in.) At the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries’ Conference ATr C. Moaros, reading a. paper, said an important development in the dairy industry Had Keen the comparative cessation of the export of meat from Australia and New Zealand, and the ouick swi.Tg over to dairying. which in a few year? had advanced, taking the joint export, fully 50 per cent. During the good season of 1921-22 the nnantities of butter shipped oversea? were ; New Zealand 63.C00 tons and Australia 57,000 ions, or more than half the total annual inrnnrts of butler into Britain. Tie naid a. tribute to the New Zealand Da in' Export Control Aet. which spread iho output over n longer marketing period. _1” such an enforced alteration of marketing methods Australia must share. They coidd visualise the sale in Britain of colonial butters becoming continuous over the yen” Questioned as to wbotber ho. thought tbero was a chance of co-ordinat’on w-iH Vow Zealand in regard to fixing iho. price of butter, Mr Mcarcs replied that in the mt-orests of producers in bob ronutres Ihev must come torethor. 'Hie seed had been sown in New Zealand. TTe fe’t He l tiles- were firmly convineeri there that bntU ennutrios must work together in the regulation of butter prices.