DAIRY PRODUCTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19622, 17 October 1933, Page 2

DAIRY PRODUCTS

AUSTRALIA’S GROWING OUTPUT Ly Telegraph— Press Association WELLINGTON, October 16. The opinion that in Australia New Zealand was going to have a serious rival in butter and cheese production, was expressed by Mr W. Crawford Burt, formerly managing director of A. and T. Burt, Ltd., on his return by the Marama to-day after 12 months’ residence in New South Wales. Mr Burt said that the output of butter for export was increasing by leaps and bounds, and now Australians were turning their attention to cheese. New Zealand would have to watch her step, for Australia was a prospective producer in a very large way In a market already over-supplied. Mr Burt said the feeling throughout Australia at present was one of buoyant optimism. There was no doubt in anybody's mind but that Australia had turned the comer. “At the same time Australia is showing an alert commercial mind in seeking a market for her goods other than England,” he continued. “The figures showing the export to the Orient of butter, flour and jam were really surprising. She has live agents in Java, Singapore, India, China and Japan, and they are straining every nerve to create trading relations with those countries. It is all nonsense to say that the prospects for trade do not exist owing to the poverty of the coolies. All the people of Java, China and Japan are not coolies any more than all the people of England are farm labourers. There is limitless wealth in these countries, and If AustnjJie. can produce goods they want there is an open avenue for trade. This market New Zealand has entirely neglected up to the present. “I still think there is a chance for New Zealand’s meat, butter and cheese in the East, but the trade will need fostering by accredited agents who know both countries. We have by no means shown an alert mind in investigating the possibilities of trade with the East.”