DAIRY PRODUCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19666, 7 December 1933, Page 13

DAIRY PRODUCE

REGULATION OF MARKETING BOARD DECIDES TO TAKE ACTION By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, December 6. The Dairy Produce Board to-day decided to complete marketing proposals which have been before the industry for some time and passed the necessary resolutions to put these ideas into effect. The exact details in connection with importers’ licenses will be held over until the Board has consulted with representatives of the Importers' Association. The Board took the first steps toward bringing about improved marketing conditions in connection with dairy produce when it decided that from August 1. 1934, factories in New Zealand exporting butter and cheese on consignment will be required to consign only to such persons, firms or companies outside New Zealand as may be approved by the Board and in such quantities as the Board also approves. It will be a condition of all licenses that butter and cheese shall not be sold until the ship’s arrival at the port of discharge, and also that all agents handling produce on consignment shall, on request, furnish to the Board copies of the account sales giving the names of the purchasers and the actual dates of the sales, and that they will also permit the account sales to be audited or verified from time to time on behalf of the Board.

The second part of the resolution dealing with the marketing proposals stated that whether either butter or cheese is being exported in pursuance of sales made f.o.b. or c.i.f., export shall be only at the price or prices approved by the Board. The effect of these resolutions is that the Board has decided upon general principles of limited control, but details of the licenses required by importers in England have not yet been fixed and are a matter for negotiation between the Board and the Importers’ Association. There will not be any attempt whatever at price fixation in England, and the Board Intends to co-operate fully with the Importers’ Association. The Board decided also to notify those dairy companies which hart written expressing approval of the Board’s proposed marketing regulations but entering protests against interference with the present methods of making f.o.b. sales, that the Board appreciates their expression of opinion and informs them that, although the clause regarding fo.b. and ci.f. selling forms a necessary part of the regulations pro - viding a policy for the improvement of the marketing of New Zealand dairy produce which the Board and the London imports consider a vital need owing to the chaotic conditions prevailing at the present, the Board does not desire to act under this clause in an arbitrary manner, but will restrict sales only to such an extent as in its judgment after giving consideration to the reports received, it considers advisable for the protection from time to time of individual factories and of the industry as a whole.