National Calamity and Financial Disaster

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1933, Page 2

National Calamity and Financial Disaster

GOODPELLOW ON QUOTA

AUCKLAND, Last Night

Referring to the cablegram from London regarding the proposed restriction of dairying imports, Mr W. Goodfellow, managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, said the Minister of Agriculture in Britain, Major Elliot, was a keen advocate of restriction as a means of helping the British farmo:. The moat and bacon restrictions had undoubtedly proved beneficial, mainly due to the fact that Britain produced 50 per cent, of the beef for her own requirements and a very large quantity of other meats. The butter quota would not have the same result, as the main business of the dairy farmers of the United Kingdom was to supply fresh milk to the 40,000,000 inhabitants of Britain. Baiter manufacture was indeed a small industry in Great Britain, and a rise in butter prices caused by restricting imports would bo of very small benefit indeed to suppliers of, fresh milk, whose surplus milk was used for butter production. That a quota restricting exports from a country like New Zealand would be a national calamity went without saying, and the repercussions of such an act would he so serious as to warrant the prediction of financial disaster.

Mr Goodt'cllow said he could .say definitely from his own personal knowledge that the farmers of the United Kingdom had a real grievance against both. Australia and New Zealand. They regarded the 25 per cent, exchange simply as a dumping measure which placed the United Kingdom farmers at a disadvantage in the matter of competition for home markets. Further, the British manufacturer • had complained bitterly at tlic Australian and New Zealand policy of fostering local industries and thereby virtually excluding British imports. , A New Zealand business man who had recently visited the Midlands .had informed him that he found it unpleasant to admit that he came from New Zealand on account of the unpopularity of tlm Dominion’s existing policy of restricting imports. “The Government should at once cable Mr Forbes,” said Mr Goodfellow, “and ascertain exactly upon what terms New Zealand could retain a free market for its produce in the United Kingdom, and this should be secured at once at no matter what cost.”

Big Advertising Campaign by ' Dairy Board

TO POPULARISE BUTTER AND CHEESE IN BRITAIN

MASTERTON, Last Night,

An announcement that the board had decided to launch an , intensive advertising campaign in Groat Britain in an endeavour to secure increased consumption of New Zealand butter and cheese was made by Mr. Dynes Fulton, acting chairman of the Dairy Produce Board at a ward conference of factory delegates held at Carterton today. In prosecuting the campaign, said Mr. Fulton, it was proposed to spend an additional £25,000, and in order to pieet this cost the board decided at its meeting on Wednesday to increase the producers' levy by l/64th. pence per pound for butter and l/12Sth. pence per pound for cheese. Mr. Fulton said Australia had agreed to spend £25,000 in one year on an advertising campaign and it was proposed that the two countries should work along the same lines.