DAIRY INDUSTRY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 May 1927, Page 9

DAIRY INDUSTRY

POSITION AT HOME.

AN EXPERTS’ RESEARCH.

In order to give the factories with which he has done business the information he lias been able to gather first-hand during his tour of Great Britain, Mr. G. H. Buckeridge addressed a gathering of directors of several factories yesterday, Mr J. R. Corrigan, chairman tof Ithe Haw.era Dairy Company, presiding. There were present over fifty, including secretaries and factory managers. Mr. Buckeridge gave a general outline of the position at Home as it appeared to, him after securing exhaustive information, based on along series of questions answered bv individual retail and wholesale merchants and controllers of large numbers of retail shops throughout the whole of the counties o,f England, and many in Wales and Scotland. These opinions he had in writing, -and there was not one of them from Tooley Street. Mr. Buckeridge said, in reply to a. “Star” representative, that he went outside the beaten tracks to get into touch with the people handling the produce direct to the consumer. He met not only retailers, through their associations throughout England, and also in Wales and Scotland, but also the wholesalers who are supporting and supplying the retailers. “When it is realised,” he said, that the number of shops controlled is well over fifty thousand, the thoroughness of the inquiry and the considered opinion given by them is of very 'great value.” Every possible aspect of the question, from every point of view, and as it affects all classes in the, Old Country, was thoroughly explored. The result of aIL the inquiry appears to be that in Mr. Buckeridge’® opinion and according to the direct statements of the business people vitally interested, all want to deal with New Zealand; control is required and will be welcomed, provided it is exercised and directed with commonsense and business methods.

Mr. Buckeridge intends to take an early opportunity to put the results of his exhaustive research before the people of the province.