QUOTA FOR DAIRY PRODUCE LIKELY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 23, 19 August 1932, Page 4

QUOTA FOR DAIRY PRODUCE LIKELY

IMPROVEMENT IN DAIRY INDUSTRY LIKELY ! STRATFORD BUSINESSMAN'S j VIEWS It appears to be reasonably certain that, though the British Government has not committed itself : in any way at the Ottawa Confer- , ence, the Dominions will receive preferential tariff treatment, and , also, very likely, a quota in respect of dairy produce, stated a local business man to the Stratford Evening Post to-day. There is distinctly less likelihood of such favourable treatment being accorded as regards meat, he added. So far as meat is concerned, New Zealand is chiefly interested in the lamb export business and also in mutton, as she cannot hope to compete with the Argentine in the export of beef. The position as regards lamb, even to-day, is not particularly good. Argentine beef is now actually selling in England at a higher price per lb than New Zealand lamb. It looks as though the big packing houses, with South American interests, are selling foreign lamb at Home cheaply in competition with New Zealand lamb and the Dominion's trade is, thereby, being prejudiced, as it is unusual for beef to realise more than lamb, he continued. Should New Zealaiid '**«&'/-r&i ceive neither pref«rence nor quota, the position might vvelL't>e,.;next year, that while conditions in Taranaki, the Waikato arrd other dairying districts will be relatively good, the position in other districts of New Zealand may not be much better than at present, though of course an improvement in currency and exchange management might bring Dominion-wide relief, he concluded.