DAIRY EXPORTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 75, 25 February 1927, Page 6

DAIRY EXPORTS

VALUE OVER SIX MILLIONS. NEW ZEALAND COMPETING AT LONDON SHOW. [Bv Telegraph.— Special to Standard.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. Important figures showing the value of New Zealand’s exported dairy produe© were presented to the meeting or the Dairy Export Control Board. They show that the advances made in respect to produce shipped to January 31 amount to £5,041,991, which probably fall short by £1,000,000 of the actual value of the produce. The board decided to make a further advance of lid per lb. in respect to the firet creamery butter pool of tne season', making a total of Is and involving a further payment of £9O 000. Payment is being made on March 1. There are still 90,000 boxes remaining in the pool unsold. The total shipments of butter under control for the five months ended January 31 are 950,270 boxes, of which per cent, were graded “finest,” this grade showing a steady appreciation, having risen from 35.5 in September to 84.16 per cent, for the January shipments. The whey butter shipped to the end of January was 14,453 boxes. 1 CHEESE. The cheese shipments amounted to 362,857 crates, of which 54.5 per cent, comprised “finest,” the January proportion of this grade having risen to 66 per cent. The board had again under consideration the premium for “finest” grade cheese in view of the difficulty in securing the extra amount on realisation. It was decided, owi.ig to the great value of the premium in securing high quality, that it be continued for the present season at least. No final reply has been received from the Government in regard to the board’s suggestion that the Government’s representative on the London agency be replaced by someone not antagonistic to the control policy. Messrs Motion and Irons, members of the board and of the London agency will leave London early. in May and will attend the board’s June meeting. REFRIGERATION EXPERT APPOINTED.

Mr W. BencCj who has been assistant to Mr Grainger, the board’s inspecting engineer, was unanimously appointed inspector on the board’s behalf in London and leaves on March 12. He will spend the whole of his time inspecting the unloading of produce steamers and watching the interests of the shippers of New Zealand dairy produce. Mr Bence has a first class marine engineer’s certificate and was in the employ of the New Zealand Shipping Co. for 25 years. Air Grainger, the chief inspector in the board’s employ, recently reported on cold storage conditions in England and this matter was further considered by the board, which ha 6 sent him to England to complete certain arrangements indicated in his report. DAIRYING RESEARCH.

Following conferences with the Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, it was resolved to co-operate with that body and to urge the importance of research in regard to dairy produce manufacture. The scheme under discussion involves the co-opera-tion of the Department of Agriculture, the new A-gricultural College Council and other scientific bodies which can undertake the necessary work. LONDON DAIRY SHOW. It has been decided, to enter New Zealand dairy' produce at the London Dairy Show after some years of abstention due to the fact that the show is held at a time which makes it difficult to stage New Zealand entries. The board has approved of a scheme under which a number of New Zealand factories w T ill be asked to enter for the show' and to manufacture their exhibits at the same time as those intended for competition at the New Zealand winter show’. The board will purchase the whole of the exhibits and its officers will test them on arrival in England, eliminating entries which are not regarded as of sufficiently high grade to meet competition from the dairy produce of the world. Though the exhibit will be staged as that of .New Zealand, there will be private marks on each item, enabling dairy factories which have manufactured the prize winning exhibits to' know of their success, and they wilj receive the prize. Reports on the registration of the New Zealand dairy produce mark, the fernleaf, show that registration is completed in England, but that difficulties have arisen in Canada and the United States and that the position there is being further investigated. PROPRIETARY ARTICLES. Extensive inquiry i 6 in progress by the committee which is investigating under the powers of the Board of Trade Act the methods of the Proprietary Articles Trade Association in New Zealand. It has been taking evidence in private,' each witness being subjected to heavy cross-examination by a small army of counsel who represent not only the principal petitioners against the operation of the organisation, but the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, which is interested in reducing the cost of living. A valuable witness heard this week was a member of the English W holesale Cooperative Society delegation visiting New Zealand. He was able to give details of the operation of the Proprietary Trades Association in the United' Kingdom. A number of other witnesses have already appeared before tire tribunal to present _ their views, both favourable to and in opposition to the association’s objects, some of those who have been heard representing interests as far south as Dunedin, and other witnesses have made the journey from Oamaru, Timaru and Christchurch. The committee still has a large number of witnesses to hear, sufficient, it is stated, to occupy the greater part of next week. Amongst the bodies which have asked for an opportunity to give evidence are the Alnster Grocers’ Association and the New Zealand Labour Party.