DAIRYING INDUSTRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21799, 14 May 1934, Page 9

DAIRYING INDUSTRY

RESTRICTION OF EXPORTS AUSTRALIAN EXPERT'S VIEWS MELBOURNE. May 12 Mr. H. W. Osborne, of the Australian Dairy Export Board, urges producers to disregard the utterances of those who advocate a policy of despair. Assuming that the butter restriction plan was adopted on the basis suggested by the British Government, namely, 6 per cent ot Dominion produce and 12 per cent of foreign, the total importations to Britain would be reduced by 38,906 tons, comprising 14,327 from the Empire and 24,5/9 from foreign countries. The aggregate of imports, said Mr. Osborne, would, ho believed, bo disposed of at much better prices than were obtainable under unrestricted conditions with glutted markets. There was no need to restrict production. Mr. Osborne suggested that second-grade and pastry butter should be withheld from export and sold locally to bakers and confectioners, in competition with margarine, or it might be sold in foreign markets at reduced prices. Ho was convinced that the regulation ot exports would place the dairying industry on a payable basis. ... Mr. Osborne represented the dairying ind'.istrv at the Ottawa Conference.