DAIRY EXPORT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 July 1924, Page 10

DAIRY EXPORT.

NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA. CO-ORDINATION OF MARKETING. The question of securing co-ordina-tion of marketing between Australia and New Zealand in the matter of marketing dairy produce Avas actively discussed at the inter-State Butter Conference held in Sydney last week. The Commonwealth dairy expert (Mr, M. A. O’Callaghan), \vho returned recently from the World Dairy Congress (at which New Zealand was not represented), gave the conference an account of impressions gathered during his visit to Great Britain, the Continent. America, and Canada’ and of what he saw of the marketing of Australian and NeAA' Zealand butter in London.

A strong recommendation for closer co-operation betAveen the States was made by Mr. O’Callaghan, Avho pointed out that if Australia did not put her house in order, she AA'ould be caught between two millstones —the highquality, uniformly marked butter of Ne\A r Zealand and the loAv-quality butter of Argentina, and Siberia, fie recommended a national brand for ail best butter, one brand for every district which produced butter of practically similar flavour, and no distinctive brand other than a registered number for all butter of loavci* than first grade. Among special recommendations he put forward the reduction of factory brands; systematic grade-marking; a commission of three to control instruction, inspection, and grading, in conjunction with the Dairy Council the application of the new system of treating cream in vaccuo—after pasteurisation by the flash system—Avith a vieAv to removing all food and other taints; recent developments of dried whole milk; substitution of aluminium ware for milk and cream tanks and vats; and the concentration of sales in London, with a vieAv of stabilising markets where necessity demanded, and coordination Avith New Zealand in marketing generally. The question of co-ordination between Australia and New Zealand Avas submitted to a. member of the New Zealand Dairy Export Control Board, who pronounced the scheme ag impracticable “Co-ordination between New Zealand and Australia in marketing dairy produce has not,” said this authority, “been considered by the Dairv. Export Control Board, and it is hard to see the. ad\ r antage of such a course The varying quantity of butter exported from Australia must always be a difficulty. During some years they only send butter fox’ a short period, and then again they may have a good season and a large surplus; it Avould be very difficult to Avork Avith them on this account alone.

“NeAv Zealand is approaching the time Avhen the dairy produce from this countiy AA'ill, by careful handling, be available for customers’ use in* Britain all the year round. In Australia- they are trying *to institute dairy produce export control, and control of’the inter State trade in butter as'well, but the problem there is much more complicated than in Ngav Zealand, owing to the fact that the Commomvealth and the States have each certain authority, which would haA’e to be co-ordinated before an act such as ours could be made effective. , “Until there is a control board for the whole of Australia I do not see how it would be possible to haA’e any agreement Avith them abo -i t the marketing of produce at Home.”