AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 139, 29 May 1935, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

Equalisation Scheme a Great Success SYDNEY, May 28. At the annual conference of New South Wales dairy factory managers it was officially announced that the equalisation scheme, which has been in operation for twelve months, has been an outstanding success and the actual amount gained by the four eastern States above world parity prices was £4,000,000. Compared with the Paterson scheme, with a levy of a penny three-farthings and a bounty of threepence, the advantage was £1,882,000. The administrative levy for maintenance of the Paterson scheme was a penny per box. It was also announced that whereas in 1913 Australia exported 33,810 tons of butter for £lO5 6/- a ton the 1935 estimates were 125,000 tons, representing £75 a ton. A cable message was read at the conference from tho general manager of the Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society saying that Australian choicest butter was superior to any other butter in Britain to-day. A broad outline of the equalisation scheme is that it embraces compulsory and voluntary action and fixation of quotas, so that manufacturers of butter in each State receive an equitable proportion of the mote profitable local and overseas markets.