DAIRY INDUSTRY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 97, 7 April 1934, Page 11

DAIRY INDUSTRY

Remedial Measures CONTROL OF MARGARINE 'By Telegraph—Press Association.) CARTERTON, April 6. The importance of Great Britain exercising control of the margarine trade before the Dominion eould hope for a better market was stressed by Mr. A. Linton, of Lower Valley, at a meeting of the Wairarapa Federated Dairy Co. He outlined a scheme whereby he thought the ills at present experienced by dairy farmers might speedily be relieved. His scheme contained the following proposal as a basis of discussion with the British Government:— (1) Bring down legislation for the control of the margarine trade by limiting the sale to 150,000 tons per annum and making it compulsory for the incorporation of at least 33 1-3 per cent, in all butter substitutes sold or manufactured in England. (2) Exercise some penalty and restriction against those countries which are keeping butter at an artificially high level internally and shipping their surpluses to England. (3) Double the amount of restriction on imports of foreign cheese which this country agrees to. (4) Any restriction this countrv agrees to be applied equally to all countries of the British Empire. 15) Guarantee New Zealand a freed market for butter over a period of the year. New Zealand will reduce her cheese export to Britain to a tonnage to be agreed upon by classification and internal control of the industry—(l) by stopping the manufacture of cheese between some time either in May and September, and (2) by controlling large dual factories to make either commodity when necessary.