DAIRY PRODUCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26748, 17 April 1948, Page 6

DAIRY PRODUCE

SALE TO GREAT BRITAIN NEGOTIATIONS NEXT MONTH p.A. WELLINGTON, Apl. 16, Discussions on the conditions of sale and the price Britain will pay for New Zealand’s butter and cheese in the 1948-49 export season will be opened in London next month between the New Zealand Dairy Products Marketing Commission and the United Kingdom Ministry of Food. The chairman of the commission, Mr W. Marshall, said to-day that, in addition to the price talks, there would be negotiations concerning the extension of the bulk sale and purchase arrangements beyond the 1949-50 season. Mr Marshall said it had been agreed in 1946 that the parties would confer in 1948 on the desirability of extending the contract for a further period of two years to cover production in New Zealand to July 31, 1952, but it had already been arranged that consideration would be given to extension beyond that date. The commission’s team for the talks will be Messrs Marshall, B. C. Ashwin and R. A. Candy, members of the commission, together with Mr G. M. Pottinger, general manager. Mr Candy has already left by steamer, Messrs Marshall and Ashwin are scheduled to leave New Zealand on May 7, travelling by air, and Mr Pottinger will follow shortly after.