POST-WAR MARKETS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24747, 22 November 1943, Page 2

POST-WAR MARKETS

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

MAGNIFICENT OPPORTUNITY The view that New Zealand need have no fear about the post-war retention of British markets for her butter, cheese and meat was expressed on Saturday, with much conviction, by Mr. Samuel Storey, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, who is a member of the British newspaper proprietors' group which is visiting New Zealand. Mr. Storey said so much food was going to he needed after the war by a starving Europe that New Zealand would have tremendous markets.

Even with her war-time primary production development, said Mr. Storey, Great Britain was still able to produce only 70 per cent of all the food she herself consumed. Her farmers would not compete with New Zealand for the butter, cheese and meat markets the Dominion had built up, so that, in both Britain and Europe, New Zealand must have magnificent postwar markets. Nor would New Zealand's British opportunities be disturbed once tin period of European readjustment was over.

Mr. Storey added that he believed that Urifain's primary development after the war would be along two predominating lines. One was the breeding of stock, and the other was the production of milk for liquid consumption. The breeding of stock would be not only for the meat market, which would still need large-scale .supplementation by imports, but also for restocking herds, for which there would be an immense post-war world demand. The production of milk would be to fill an urgent home consumption need. Its development would be helped, he thought, by the enforced wartime cultivation of land which for years had been allowed to revert to waste. He did not think that this latid, much of it poor, would again be allowed to revert; instead, it would be used as pasture. "You will see," Mr. Storey concluded, "that after the war we will build up our milk supply. It will not be for cream for butter production; it will b'./ for immediate consumption."