DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18026, 22 May 1930, Page 6

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

NEED OF CO-OPERATION ADDRESS BY MR HAMES. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. The necessity for'greater co-opera tion between dairymen in New Zealano in regard to the sale of butter on the overseas market was emphasised by Mr T. L. Hames, secretary of Amalgamated Dairies, Limited, in a luncheon address to the Creditmen’s Club to-day. Excessive competition among the selling agents was chiefly responsible for the reduced prices obtaining for butter in the United Kingdom today, Mr Hames said. Mr Hames said that the United Kingdom was the largest market for New Zealand dairy produce and in 1928-29, of 2,977,000 boxes of butter sent abroad, two and a-half million boxes went to the United Kingdom. Of two and three-quarter million crates of cheese exported, the United Kingdom took two and a-quarter million crates. It was intended, Mr Hames said, to increase and extend alternative markets, one of the most important of which is Canada. Since April, 18,000 tons of butter had gone to Canada, and although the new tariff proposals of the Canadian Government was an unpleasant development, he did not think that Canada would be abl# to cater for its own requirements.