DAIRY PRICES

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22153, 27 September 1943, Page 7

DAIRY PRICES

COMPARISON WITH AMERICA AUCKLAND, Saturday “The only reason w'hy New Zealand butter and cheese prices have been held down to a pre-war figure is because the New Zealand Government has absolutely refused, even under pressure from Australia, to ask for any price increase to balance the rising cost of imports.” said a director of an Auckland dairy factory. He was commenting on the statement made by the Hon. W. Nash at his meeting at Hutt on Tuesday night, in which he said that New Zealand obtained the same prices | from the United Kingdom for its dairy produce as Australia, Canada j and South Africa, and therefore it would not be fair for New Zealand to ask more. • This statement was definitely misleading, he said. At Whangarei the Hon. J. G. Barclay had repeated his absurd statement that New Zealand cheese factories received ljda pound more than the United States factories for cheese exported to the United Kingdom. The United States War Food Administration market review, ! dated July, 1943, and the Canadian 1 Agricultural Department’s market report for April, 1943, enabled the following illuminating comparison to be made, all the prices being in New i Zealand currency:— j Cheese (ex factories or f.o.b) : N.Z., 8.73 d lb: Canada, i /1.6 c! lb; U.S.A. l/7d lb. i Butter: N.Z.. 1/3.30d lb; Canada, 2/4d lb; U.S.A., 2/1 Od lb.