EASTERN TRADE.
The matter of the further development of our trade with the East lias had the careful attention of the Dairy Board during the past year. A committee set lip representative of all the Export Boards in conjunction with the Department of Industries and Commerce, thoroughly examined the possibilities of further business and the Department prepared a most comprehensive report. Speaking generally, the report brought to light nothing that would justify the Board’s undertaking extra expenditure on developing Eastern markets. The problem is can the quantities be increased? The answer is that they can be increased only df prices are reduced sufficiently to undercut Australian shippers and to obtain the business that is going to them. The total volume of dairy produce going to the East is unlikely to be increased meantime to any great extent . 11l spite of extremely low prices in later years Australia’s quantity has not increased and we can see no permanent increase in the total aCcnrfiTgTb !stew Zealand apart from the under-cutting of prices. This is neither profitable or business-like. Australia by virtue of lower freight rates and the Paterson Plan can still beat us on a price basis.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12441, 6 September 1933, Page 2
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