FROM CHEESE TO BUTTER

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1933, Page 7

FROM CHEESE TO BUTTER

EXPORTS FROM DOMINION BRITAIN DESIRES CHANGE FARMERS’ UNION DELEGATE SURPLUS MILK IN BRITAIN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Aug. 30. The Daily Herald’s agricultural editor, referring to Mr. Thomas Baxter’s visit to New Zealand to meet Dominion farmers on behalf of the British Farmers’ Union, says that Mr. Baxter, who is chairman of the Milk Board, hastily arranged his visit with a view to attempting to persuade New Zealand farmers to make a big change from cheese to butter. Members of the Milk Board desire this in order that a large scale factory manufacture of cheese may be built and thus utilise at least 40 per cent, of the British milk which is now surplus. Mr. Baxter hopes to convince the New Zealand farmers that the difficulties that have arisen out of the Ottawa Agreement will thus be overcome. Neither the British nor New Zealand Government is anxious to re-open the Ottawa arrangement, but they will be relieved if the farmers of the two countries reach a settlement on a voluntary basis.

There would be an understanding that no official encouragement would be given a factory making butter in Britain.