BK FROM ENGLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 15 November 1924, Page 13

BK FROM ENGLAND.

PRODUCTS AND MARKETS. ' Air Bernard Tripp, of “Orielton,” Wai-iti lioau, re turned to the ltommton ou \i ednesday, by-tne nimaroa. 'Always interested in -toe marKeting of iNew Zeauiha produce .ur ’I npp niaue it his, business ;uN go into tins in,atter while at Home, -Uhu lie conveyed some of his impressions to a representative of the “Tiiu'aru Herald,” yesterday. Air Tripp said he hud come to the conclusion mat it was absolutely necessary to have boards or count-.ls estabhsed at epch end to look alter New Zealand interests. • ‘Tf this had been done tlprty years ,ago,” he said, “'tno protlucers m this Dominion and in Australia would have been better ott. Aly idea is that these boards or councils would not ’ interfere with the present selling brokers m England or New Zealand, with the exception that tho boards" should have power to regulate supplies, find new markets, arrange contracts for freight, insurance, etc., and push trade generally. if therp; was too much on the market, -they should'have' the power to hold bacts supplies. I wish to make •it clear that, under the arrangement I suggest,, brokers tvoijld ' get, theiiv commission just the sante-, but, instead of getting it, say, in March, theymight have to walk a few months. In the long run, however, they would obtain far more commission, as pi-ices wpukl-be higher.; ’ Our Aleat Board is doing excellent work on these lines, but i, do npt think there is any tyjed to have as miich power as the Act gives them with regard to selling. Tins, I think would bo fatal, but it is not likely that anything serious would happen, witlT such level-headed men as Air David Jones, the chairman of the Aleat Board, or Air Eorsyth, looking after our interests. But, the sooner we have councils established both here and in England, to look after all our primary products, such as meat, fruit, buffer,- wool, skms, etc. the better for everyone. The view I have put forward is iu conformity with the poljcy advocated by Air J. A. Cramgie, chairman of the Australian Alept Council, with whom I discussed the mat-ter-in Australia while on my way home.”- . Referring to the wool market, Air Tripp expressed the view that it was necessary to watch marketing conditions closely. Especially wps this the case- now that B.A.W.RfA. was coming to an end. He recommended the establishment of a wool council here and in London, in conjunction with Australia. No doubt, youth Africa'and South America would jom in. “Recause wool is selling well now, don’t let it get slack again, and be without any control council, as 'we were before B.A.AV.R.A. came to onr fescue,” he saM.’ “1 feel sure-1 am right iu saying that, if wb hi>a had a wool council for the last fifty years, we would have had a better price for wool before the war. It is hiird to reason j why- wool, before the war, was worth ) about half, or less than half the present | price. L .admit s heep have decreased in numbers but the world then was in ‘ a much better' state and millions of J people could afford to buy more wool--1 len clothes than they can now. I put ) the rise in wool down chiefly to tho ] act on of B A.AVVR?A’V m ; ...lAVhile in England Air Tripp visited I the Cambridge Low Temperature Research Station., and studied their experiments in connection with frozen •Jobds. He v expressed the opinion that it was a great pity that the Meat Board :«or- the -.-rHepacHment of AgHcnlw tine had not arranged for e.-mebody who had been studying the e.'-peri-ments to* cpiue out to Ne\v /onffuul and try out experiments which they had proved so successful. Some of the Cam-bridge-experiments in beef liad been vefy successful, ,nhd’ 'he thought—and the Cambridge authorities thought also —that, m the future, New Zealand and ' Australia would be in a position to export beef that would be thawed but at Home equal to- chilled beef, : Jf not better. - It seemed extraordinary to him tlyit Australia and New Zealand, with millions of pounds involved, did not have an experimenting station.