WISH FOR QUOTA ON CHEESE

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1933, Page 9

WISH FOR QUOTA ON CHEESE

HISTORY OF MILK MARKETING.. ■ / EXPLANATION BY MR. MASTERS. One of the reasons underlying the desire of the British farmer to have & quota imposed on imports of Dominion primary produce was explained at Stratford last night by the Hon. R. Masters, Minister of Industries and Commerce. The milk marketing scheme involved the payment of .an equal return to the farmer who made cheese instead of selling fluid milk through the pool. In 1931, Mr. Masters said, legislation empowering any organisation of farmers in Britain to take control of the marketing of any particular primary product was passed; the measures proposed by such an organisation were to be approved by Parliament and by the farmers. One organisation arranged to take control of the fluid milk market and the suggestions were approved by Parliament and 93 per cent, of the fanners. There were many farmers making cheese and the organisation feared that the price paid for fluid milk might exceed that which the farmer could obtain by making cheese, so the legislation provided that should the price paid for fluid milk be the more remunerative the cheesemaker should be recompensed from the fluid milk pool until his receipts were the same as those of the farmer supplying fluid milk. Therefore Britain wanted imports, of cheese restricted so that the British cheese-maker could obtain a satisfactory price without being subsidised from the pool. . “That is what we are faced with in New Zealand,” Mr. Masters said.