FARMERS CONFER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21247, 29 July 1932, Page 9

FARMERS CONFER

DAIRYING DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, July 28 The Farmers' Conference now sitting at Hawkesbury College discussed the development of dairying. It was stated that the fall of TO per cent in prices was balanced in New South Wales by an increase in production. The indications were that the expansion of the industry would be great and continuous. Inland production could cover the winter and early spring months, so that large quantities of butter could be exported all the year round, thus bridging the difference between the summer and winter prices. Production in New South Wales should reach 100,000 tons, and in Australia 300,000 tons before long. Mr. Mclnnes, Director of Dairying, sounded a warning against the unregulated storage qf butter, as when the present restrictions were removed, Ireland would dump a large tonnage of butter, rendered inferior by storage, into England, smashing the market probably at a time whej> Australian exports were again appreciating. Reorganisation of the methods of marketing meat was urged with an improved grading system, and killing in country centres in order to avoid centralisation in metropolitan works.

ECONOMICS PROPOSED CONFERENCE SOME DELAY EXPECTED WASHINGTON. July 27 Doubt that the proposed World Economic Conference can be held before the late autumn was expressed to-day by the Ambassador to Britain, Mr. Andrew Mellon. He said he thought the conference could not. be held in the immediate future because Britain was occupied w*ith the Ottawa Conference, and such a parley would entail much preparatory work.