BUTTER PRODUCTION

Southland Times, Issue 19281, 27 June 1924, Page 6

BUTTER PRODUCTION

THE MARKETING PROBLEM. NEW ZEALAND’S METHODS APPROVED (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, June 26. At- the Co-operative Dairy Factory Man* agers’ and Secretaries’ Conference Mr CL Meares, reading a paper, said an important development in the dairy industry had been the comparative cessation of the export of meat from Australia and New Zealand, and the quick swing over to dairying, which in a few years had advanced, taking the joint export, fully 50 per cent. During the good season of 1921-22 the quantities of butter shipped overeeas were: New Zealand 63,000 tons and Australia 57,000 tons, or more than half the total annual imports of butter into Britain. He paid a tribute to the New Zealand Dairy Export Control Act, which spread the output over a longer marketing period. In such an enforced alteration of marketing methods Australia must share. They could visualise the sale in Britain of colonial butters becoming continuous over the year.

Questioned as to whether he thought there was a chance of co-operation with New Zealand in regard to fixing the price of butter, Mr Meares replied that in the interests of producers in both countriee they must come together. The seed had been sown in New Zealand. He felt that they were firmly convinced there that both countries must work together in the regulation of butter prices.