URGE TO FARMERS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1933, Page 5

URGE TO FARMERS

MAINTAIN 1 QUALITY

GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S ADVICE.

(Pit Press Association — Copyright.)

CHRISTCHURCH, November 10,

Advice to farmers to maintain the quality of their products if they wished to retain or expand, the market in Britain was given by the Gov-ernor-General at a luncheon at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Snow to-day. If farmers wanted to earn a living, lm said, they were bound to be the victims of their customers. They should be willing victims. They should do. their ; best to supply what the customers demanded, and not what they thought the customers ought to demand.

“We live temporarily at least m an undernourished world of national exclusiveness and restrictive quotas,' 1 said His Excellency, “but I am sure that New Zealand has nothing to fear in Import restrictions— if these are framed on a qualitative, a s well as a quantitative basis; and if she maintains land develops .an outstanding reputation for produce of uniform excellence. I venture to hope that you will maintain for Canterbury lamb and for the best dairy produce the fine trade which you have in the Old Land to the exclusion of all-comers. Never were there greater opportunities for New Zealand to profit by her great natural, advantages. Never was ther. e greater risk of her suffering in competition with other countries by too insular or too conservative an outlook.”

His Excellency concluded ; “Do all in your power to maintain your grip on the British markets, and in other commodities see that you achieve further laurels. We in the Old Country wil] do all in our power to see that your produce is marketed at- good value. Even since the Ottawa. Conference, whatever our ideas were before, we have believed in the Old Land that we have identical interests.”

CHAOS TN BUTTER MARKETS

AUSTRALIA EXPRESSES ALARM,

MELBOURNE, November 10.

The Inter-State Dairv Committee are alarmed at the. chaotic conditions of the butter markets, with the indieafi&ns being for still lower prices overseas.

At the committee meeting it .ws decided to ask the Federal Ministry to pass legislation, without delnv, designed to stabilise the d.air v ing industrv along the lines suggested bv r»»*y ducer.s* representatives at a conference held at Sydney in May.

OHILLED AiND FROZEN BEEF

LONDON. November

T n th° House of Commons, Maior Elliot, Min 'stor of A prionlture. in answer +o nupstions, 50 id that the sq'?',cimr> | o”ts r>-p phPled and frrw<> v ' hapf for the present niiarter w-urd c how a. reduction of tw’f’ntv.tlr’'' 1 ' 5 tho''S'.vr>d H'Us, as v<""T)ared tri+v, tb" 'perne on niter of 1939. Chilled b»ef alone liod b=en I’e-duced by fifteen thousand tons.