DAIRY PRODUCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 August 1928, Page 9

DAIRY PRODUCE.

METHOD OF MARKETING

SALE OR CONSIGNMENT.

“The man who -thinks he can beat; the English merchants,” said Mr. C. J. Ha when at the Mells D airy Company annual meeting yesterday, ‘is wasting his time out here in New Zealand.”" Mr. Hawked went on to say that- just as in other branches of maiketino - of produce the merchants knew to a "fraction all that was_ produced and going forward. He added that factories when they sold did so blindly. Instancing a case in winch lie was interested some years ago in connection with meat at Patea works, he said that the then directors decided one year to sell, and found out after thev had sold that whereas in one year Australia’s, output had been 990,000 carcases, in the year when Patea, sold it was a mere fraction of that total. He went on to say that there was now a rise of a penny both in beef and in mutton., and that must of necessity affect the price of cheese to the advantage. of the supplier. There was a shortage in supplies of meat both from Australia and from the Argentine, due largely to a disease that was affecting part of the carcase. Some years l ago growers of meat were getting 44d for hindquarters, and now they, got 7J-d. He added that the position of the people generally at Home had improved ,and their spending power was greater. It was generally acknowledged that with better times the people began at once to eat better food. He was optimistic of the prospects of cheese for several years. Cheese and meat were the two main objects of diet with the. working people at Home. The noonlation of the cities of the United States had increased so rapidly that they were now importing milk and cream largely from Canada 1 . In addition. there was an enormous increase in the manufacture of ice creams in England, and this was using up the supplies available in the Old Country. He observed that there had lieen less wages' lost in strikes during the past rear than for over 20 years, and therefore there was more spending power. Th e cotton workers’ trouble had been settled, and they hoped there, would ho no more.