DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22070, 28 September 1933, Page 10

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT

NEW MARKETING PROPOSALS LICENSING OF IMPORTERS (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 27, _ What is said to be the first public announcement of the proposals submitted by the London Importers’ Association to the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board concerning marketing was made by Mr J. W. Kime, chairman of directors of the Canterbury Central Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd. Speaking at the annual meeting of the company to-day, Mr Kime said that the clauses were fully discussed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, and after slight amendments had been made to improve the working of the various clauses the proposals received almost unanimous endorsement by the conference. The Dairy Board at a later meeting decided to put them Into operation with some slight alterations. The date of the proposals coming into force had not yet been decided. The main proposal as amended read: “ The export of all butter and cheese from New Zealand is to be under license granted by the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board to importers approved by the board. The license shall provide that a licensee shall not buy on his own account New Zealand dairy produce either in New Zealand, afloat, or elsewhere. The board is to provide the machinery for sales or transfers from one importer to another when the board’s London "manager is satisfied that such importer is short of New Zealand produce, either for pat or general trade, and other than such sales. It is a condition of the license that the holder undertakes to confine his activities in New Zealand dairy produce to first sales only. Dairy companies or proprietors are to be free to make f.o.b. or c.i.f. sales on their own account. A regulation is to be established by the board to provide that no f.o.b. or c.i.f. sales he made below London current prices at the time the sale was made.”