CONTROL BY DAIRY BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1933, Page 9

CONTROL BY DAIRY BOARD

SALE OF SECONDARY BUTTER “PROHIBITION ONLY ALTERNATIVE.” EVILS OF UNRESTRICTED SALES. RATIO OF PRICES MAY-BE WIDENED. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board has decided to take over the marketing of all butters other than finest and first grade creamery butter. This will cover whey butter, second and third grade creamery butters and milled butter. The board announced that it has been compelled to take this action owing to the continuous reports from its London office of the adverse effect of the unrestricted sale of the above-mentioned butters on the reputation and price of New Zealand finest and first grade butters. The control will take effect on butter gradings on May 1, 1933, and onwards. The butter will be consigned to R. and W. Davidson Ltd. The board proposes to make a separate pool for the shipments by each steamer so that factories whose produce is included in that steamer will receive the same price, grade for grade. The necessary bank credits will be arranged and factories will receive advances on shipments as usual. It is proposed to ship these butters as promptly as possible after grading and freezing. The board assumes that no advances will be required against store warrants. In the board’s weekly cable from London particulars will be given of the average price for any boat for which sales are completed. It is probable that the price realised for these classes of butters may not be as high in relation to first grade creamery butter as it has been in the past, the board says, but the only alternative to control of these classes of produce is complete prohibition of export. DELEGATION FOR AUSTRALIA. CONFERENCE NEXT MONTH. An announcement that a deputation from the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board would meet the Australian Dairy Produce Board at a conference at Sydney on April 18 was made by Mr. Dynes Fulton, acting-chairman of the New Zealand Board. The deputation will comprise Mr. Dynes Fulton, Mr. W. Grounds, of Hokianga, a member of the board, and Mr. T. C. Brash, secretary of the board.

Mr. Fulton said the proposal was the outcome of the action of two members of the Australian board who waited on the New Zealand board last Tuesday to discuss matters of vital interest to both countries. It was obvious, he said, that Australia and New Zealand should work more closely together in the future than they had done in the past. Indeed, the huge increase in production in Australia and the unrestricted shipments of butter to Great Britain had been responsible to a great extent for the accumulation of stocks, and if a better method could be arranged for spreading shipments from both countries there was no doubt that better prices could be obtained. Australia had increased production at an alarming rate, and with the possibility of further expansion it would be necessary for the two countries to work more closely together for their mutual benefit.

The board, therefore, decided that he, as acting-chairman, together with Mr. Grounds and Mr. Brash, should meet the Australian Dairy Produce Board on April 18. They propos’d to leave New Zealand on April 14 and hoped to return .to Auckland on April 26. The requests for restriction made by Great Britain would be fully discussed at the conference, but it would be impossible for New Zealand to consider restrictions.