DAIRY PRODUCE TRADE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 7

DAIRY PRODUCE TRADE

DOMINION AND BRITAIN IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITIONS VISITOR SUGGESTS PROSPECTS, FRANK DISCUSSION URGED. (By X<jlegrai,h—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 30. Captain R. G. Briscoe, a member of the House of Commons, who arrived to-day, expressed the opinion that it would be possible, if the British and New Zealand Governments got, together, for a mutual arrangement to be made so that the prices on the British markets could be made more advantageous to Dominion producers. He did not think New Zealand bad anything to fear in respect of an import restriction, because there was a definite limit to the amount of butter etc. that- England could produce. “A strong Empire feeling has always existed and it is as strong today as ever,” he continued. “It is always realised that the only way New Zealand can pay interest on loans l is! by exporting butter to England and; we are not going to prejudice those’ payments. The question is to get together. I am sure that each country, will realise the difficulties and aspirations of the other and that satisfactory arrangements could be air rived at.”

Captain Briscoe also said there was no iIL feeling in England in fespect of New Zealand’s, exchange rate. It was considered that New Zealand had a perfect right to look after her own interests.

REPLY TO MR. GOODFELLOW MANUFACTURERS NOT PERTURBED VIEWS ON FREE TR ADE WELLINGTON, April 30. “The manufacturers are not perturbed by Mr W. Goodfellow’s latest diatribe against them,” says Mr A. 33. Mantler, secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation. “Mr Goodfellow and this friends on the Dairy Board are very largely responsible for having allowed the' dairying industry to drift into its present plight and they are obviously tryin<* # <to distract attention from that faci by making these Spectacular attacks upon the Government, the manufacturers and anyone else who comes in sight, “Even so, Mr Goodfellow is again unfortunate in the example he chooses to quote. Wirenetting is not made in New Zealand and is duty free, under the tariff. Moreover, the British manufacturers determine weekly the price at which Britain will sell wirenetting to each country. ' Thej same applies to corrugated iron and the price charged to New Zealand is 10s a ton higher (f.0.b.) than the price charged to any other country in the! world. Corrugated iron is free of duty; under our tariff. Because we do not have to pay any duty they can make us pay correspondingly more for the iron itself. That is how free trade works out in this instance.

“Mr Goodfellow might explain why he attacks the very moderate tariff protection of all other industries and yet says nothing about the direct subsidy of 100,000 to the production of superphospliates. ’ ’

PROBLEM OF QUALITY, MANAGERS IN CONFERENCE 1 . PALMERSTON N., April 30. Dairy factory managers and first assistants from all parts of New Zealand assembled at Massey College today for a week’s discussion of problems relating to quality in the dairy industry. At the opening this morning Dr Marsden. of the Department of' Scientific Industrial Research, explained the functions of his department and those of the Dairy Research Institute. professor Riddett, director of the institute, expiainTiig Its work, said the latest results of research into cheese and butter quality would be submitted to the gathering in. detail.