DAIRY PRODUCE

Northern Advocate, 14 August 1935, Page 6

DAIRY PRODUCE

I MOST VITAL NEED NEW MARKETS. [Special to “Northern Advocate."] MORRINSVILLE, This Day, “The finding of fresh markets is the i most vital need of the dairy industry today," declared Mr J. E. Leeson. chairman of directors of the Morrinsvllle Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., at the conference of dairy company directors in the Northern Ward of the Dairy Produce Board at Morrinsville, when moving the following resolution:— “This conference urges upon the Government the necessity of putting the matter of fresh markets in the forefront of its efforts to improve the I conditions of the dairy industry.” ! Mr Leeson said that the Government had taken over control of the dairy industry 12 months ago, but it was hard to say what it had done since then to find fresh markets. The recent improvement in the price of butter was due, not to any effort of the Dairy Board or the Commission of Agriculture, but simply to a falling off in imports of butter to Britain, following the drought in New Zealand, and lower exports from Denmark. Mr Leeson deplored the loss of the Canadian market, which formerly absorbed 20,000 tons of New Zealand butter. The motion was heartily supported by other speakers and carried. It will go forward to the Dominion Coni ference of delegates, to be held under the auspices of the Dairy Board next i month.