MARKETING PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 11

MARKETING PROBLEMS

THE BEST BRAINS REQUIRED (Peb United Press Association) DANNEVIRKE, June 27. Speaking at a meeting of-farmers at Ti Tree Point, Mr Livingston (chairman of the Southern Hawke's Bay Farmers' Union), afier stating that boards and politicians had failed to find new markets, suggested the forming of a New Zealand co-operative marketing company. There were supposed to be 60,000 farmers in the Dominion, and if each paid £5 that would mean £300,000. They should buy the beat brains and send the best men they could to obtain markets in China and Japan. If they could get trade on a reciprocal basis, then he thought they would be getting somewhere. Whatever they did, it seemed to him they had to work on co-co-operative lines to cut down the overhead of stock and station agents. A rise of a farthing a pound in wool, mutton, and butter would more than recoup the expenditure to form a company. The farmers themselves had to get behind it. He intended bringing the matter forward at the next Farmers' Union conference.