DAIRY CONTROL BOARD’S POLICY.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2672, 5 May 1925, Page 7

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD’S POLICY.

The message from the Wellington correspondent of the "The Times” announcing the measures recommended to the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board in order to secure extended sales In this country has aroused much interest in the provision trade /(writes a correspondent of the “Times” Trade Supplement"). Some apprehension existed that the Control Board might endeavour .to set up control of prices through regulation of supplies. Such a step was indeed suggested when the proposal was first made by the Control Board to establish a London office, but when the delegates from the Dominion met importers in London last year the latter pointed out that such a scheme would defeat its own objects, because supplies from other countries, being without restriction as to quantity and price, would cut out Dominion produce. That the argument was well based is more apparent to-day than when it was made, for at least five other countries are now entering s apon special schemes to foster their English trade. Tlrey are the Irish Free State, Denmark, Russia (through the Siberian Company, which has just obtained special concessions from the Soviet Government),- Esthonia, and the Argentine. Probably it was the hint of what these countries were about to do that led the Dominion delegates to “emphasise the present riecd for concentration upon the British market.”