DAIRYING INDUSTRY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19048, 27 June 1924, Page 8

DAIRYING INDUSTRY

CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, June 25. At the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers’ and Secretaries’ Conference, Mr C. Meares, in reading a paper, said, that an important development in the dairy industry had been the comparative cessation of the export of meat from Australia and New Zealand and the quick swing over to dairying which, in a few years, had advanced the joint export fully 50 per cent. During the good season of 1921-22 the quantities of butter shipped overseas were—New Zealand, 63,000 tons; Australia, 57,000 tons, or more than half the total annual imports of butter into Britain. He paid tribute to New Zealand Dairy Export Control Act, which spread the output over a longer marketing period. In such enforced alteration of the marketing methods, Australia must share. They could visualise the sale in Britain of colonial butters becoming continuous over the year. Questioned whether he thought there was a chance of co-ordination with New Zealand in regard to fixing the price of butter, Mr Meares replied that in the interests of producers they must come together. The seed had been sown in New Zealand. He felt that they were firmly convinced that both countries must work together in the regulation of butter prices.