DAIRY PRODUCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 June 1924, Page 11

DAIRY PRODUCE.

CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING

TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALAND

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

Received ~Jline 26, 10.25 a.m. : SYDNEY, June 26. At the co-operative dairy factory managers and secretaries conference, Mr C. Meares, reading a." paper, said that the important development in the dairy industry had been the comparative cessation of the export of meat from Australia and New Zealand and the quick swing over to dairying, which, in a few years, had advanced the joint export fully 50 per cent. During the" good season of 1921-22 the quantities of butter shipped overseas were: New Zealand 63,000 tons, Australia 57,000 tons, or more than half the total annual imports of butter into Britain. He paid a tribute to the New Zealand Dairy Export Control Act, which would spread the output over a longer marketing period. In such an enforced alteration of marketing methods Australia must share. They could visualise the sale in Britain of colonial butters becoming continuous over the year.

Questioned on whether he thought there was a chance of co-ordination with New Zealand in regard to fixing the price of butter, Mr Meares replied that .in the interests of the producers of the places they must come together. The seed had been sown in New Zealand. He felt that they were firmly convinced there that both countries must work together in the regulation of butter prices.