DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1926, Page 11

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

STOCKS IN HAND IN LONDON ARRIVALS OF NEW PRODUCE. THE BOARD’S SATISFACTION. Bj Telegrarh.—Press Assoclution. Wellington, Last Night. At a meeting of the Dairy Control Board the secretary reported that the arrivals of the new season’s produce in London up to and ineluding the lonic bad been 170,709 boxes of butter, and sales to December 10 had been 119,364 boxes. The lonic had reached London only on December 7, so that the carryover represented the bulk of her produce then unshipped. Arrivals of cheese up to and including the lonic had been 41,810 crates, and the sales 24,560 crates. The price now ruling for finest butter was 172 s and for finest cheese 965. Satisfactory sales, fully in line with the London parity, had been made to Canada for a spread shipment November to February. The Australian market was outside control, and no figures of the volume of sales to Australasia could be given. In extending the compliments of the season to the members of the board and to the staff and suppliers, the actingchairman stated that he was impressed with the importance to the industry as a whole of the scheme they were working on. Routine work was proceeding most satisfactorily, thus disproving the earlier predictions that the task would be too big, while definite economies were being made by the concentration of documents and shipments. Producers had a charter in the Act which should be jealously guarded, because if the powers now possessed were lost, it would be a generation before the producers would again secure an opportunity of dealing with their own produce as they now were able to do. Commercial men should give the farmers credit for endeavouring to improve the position of the primary producer, whose prosperity meant so much to the country as a whole.