IMPROVED MARKETS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8736, 19 May 1914, Page 8

IMPROVED MARKETS

A DAIRY-PRODUCE MOVEMENT.

The annual report of the South Island Dairy Association, dealing with the scheme for improved handling of produce, says: — , “The producers in the North Island seem determined to do something to prevent, if possible, what they believe to be the sacrificing of our cheese and butter on the London market at lower prices', than what should rule. This year, we in the South. Island are not much interested in the London cheese market, as we sold oner cheese for the season at from (3d to 6Jd on trucks probably at an average of 61 d f.o.b. Our butter factories were not so fortunate, and largely consigned to what has been a poor market all along. The large cheese and butter factories in the North Island, met .at Hawcra, and have appointed a committee of leading factory directors from all parts of the North Island to draw up a practical scheme for marketing butter and cheese, and resolved, that this committee’s proposal be submitted to the dairy companies of the Dominion not later than May 31st, and that a meeting of accredited representatives of Kew Zealand dairy companies bo held at Palmerston North on Wednesday, Juno 17th, to deal with this committee’s report. We, in South Island, are in favour of selling here, but we may not always be able to get a satisfactory price, for the total output of New Zealand cheese for each season is rapidly increasing.”