OVERSEA MARKETING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 3

OVERSEA MARKETING

GRAZIERS’ CRITICISM SYSTEM “ABSOLUTELY WRETCHED” YOUNG (N.S.W.), Nov. 10. In a speech here to-day, the president of the Graziers’ Association, Air F. If. Tout, At.L.O., severely criticised the methods employed to market Australian primary' products in the United Kingdom. “There is no doubt,” Mr Tout said, “that the marketing and distribution of onv products, principally wheat and meat, in the United Kingdom, is absolutely wretched. This is a matter which will have to be rectified before we can get our fair share of the trade.”

Mr Tout said that there was no provision in England for the distribution of Australian meat. If a cargo of meat arrived in England and someone came along and bought it, that was all right; but if it was not bought the agents were told to got rid of it, and it fell into tin' hands of speculators and middlemen. At Smithfield lie saw Australian lam]) selling off the hook at fid and fib] a lb. He had a report to make on this matter, and lie would advance a Scheme, and. if necessary', travel through the Commonwealth advocating it. ,

'He had met and discussed the wheatposition, he added, with Sir Herbert Robson, who was recognised as a leading authority on wheat- and. flour. Sir Herbert Robson had said there was no doubt that the best wheat- for breadmaking in the trade was Canadian red wheat, while the best white wheat for all household purposes was Australian. Sir Hechcrt Samuel had said that the marketing and distributing of Australian -wheat in England was absolutely' wretched, ■ where it existed at all. Australia, produced the right goods, but they were not exploiting them to advantage or telling the housewives -of England the advantages of the Australian product. When he visited Bradford, lie continued, he found that the public did not know there was such a thing as Empire blitter and could buy only Danish butter. The grocers said there was no demand for Australian butter. He had been the guest of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce at a dinner, and when he spoke of the need for using Empire products, the chairman of the chamber decided to take his advice. He ordered Australian butter from his grocer, and was told ho could not be supplied. He refused to take any other and the grocer got a supply. Within a month that grocer was selling from six to seven tons of Australian butter a month.