DAIRY PROSPECTS.
Sir, —I was interested in the comments of Mr A. C. Rowson, of London, in your issue of Thursday last, on prospects of the dairy market improving, and his reasons for the low prices ruling of recent months. Two of the points he made I do not agree with. One was his idea of what the retail price of our butter and cheese should be on the Home market, and the other why New Zealand should be mixed up with Australia in advertising our products. I would suggest that Mr Rowson get from the Agricultural Department the statistics compiled by its officers of production costs on eleven hundred farms throughout the Dominion, in which it is shown that the average cost of producing a pound of butter is Is 21d. His friends here could surely get that information for Mr Rowson, so that he could become better informed. I met Mr Rowson some three years ago, and had no idea when he left us that he went away with the impression that our standard of living is the same as that in Soviet Russia.—l am, etc., A. H. PARISH.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3263, 21 February 1931, Page 4
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