DAIRY EXPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17156, 5 October 1926, Page 2

DAIRY EXPORT

BRITAIN AND CANADA EFFECT OF CONTROL YANCOUYER, Aug. 31. In .the course of his journey over the Dominion of Canada, Mr. H.. Gladstone Hill, of Hamilton, New Zealand, stated, in the course of an interview with a representative 6f the Montreal Dailv Star, that the New Zealand Board of Control was confronted with a practically insoluble problem in trying to fix prices of export dairy produce fronuthat British possession. Ho remarked that he had been in the <iahy business for thirty years in New 'Zealand, and had watched the industry grow from comparative small things to the great expaiisiOn" of the present day. Mr. Hill has. spent, some recent months in Great Britain, examining the distribution of New Zealand dairy produse in that country. He stated that he had discovered there was a prejudice against the purchase of New Zealand butter and cheese both ou the part of the wholesale buyers in London and of the retailers in the towns. This . he attributed in large measure to the formation of the Board, of Control, which, he claimed, was attempting to set the price for. buyers in Great Britain. Ho regafded such action as suicidal in view of the. competition from Canada, Denmark, Ireland and even Siberia. Mr. Hill observed that New Zealand appeared to halve doubt's of the Board of Control, and was no longer prepared to made its powers mandatory, but had decided that this point must first be submitted to Parliament. ' Mr. Hill has designed a map showing • the immense expension in New Zealand, and he told Canadians that on March 31, 1925, butter exports for the vear to that date had been shown to be .71,089 tons, while cheese reached 71,997 tons, an increase since 1920 of 54,949 tons of butter and 11,242 tons of cheese. Even with this expansion, ho claimed that the industry in New Zealand was only in its infancy, and that .there was 'ample room for immense ,devcldpnienf. He said Government grading was in full effect in New Zealand, and so great was the faith in the value of these grading certificates that they were accepted everywhere and had the value of a certified cheque. Opinion is divided in Canada as to the efficacy of a dairy control board, the commission men principally taking objection to the establishment of such a body to handle* Canada's buttef arid cheese output for the overseas markets.