FOREIGN BUTTER

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 10

FOREIGN BUTTER

ANTI-DUMPING ACT

FARMERS RESENTFUL

Keen disappointment and not a little resentment is felt by British farmers and dairying interests over the fact that the. »ew anti-dumping Act—the Abnormal Importations (Customs Duties) Act—makes Mo provision for agricultural produce, and therefore leaves the question of food clumping as much "in the air" as hitherto (writes the Empire Dairy Council, under date of 26th November). I •Ihe strongest possible represenfatimis j nave, of course, been made to the Gov- | ermnent to-repair this omission, but ;.t j the time- of writing the only comfort offered is that the Minister of Agriculture (Sir John Gilmour) is "well aware of the situation" and eager to "give it consideration." Meanwhile, the Minister is having to cope with a bombardment of Parliamentary questions regarding- the continued dumping of foreign butter. One inemW lor example, asked if he was aware that Vhen British butter is blended with foreign butter no disclosure has to lie made to the public that this concoction is bein-tWeicn,thctm-c 5' he admitted that MSOlewt of Russian butter was imported last month, as against only 19,088 CTt. a year ago, and added that an order had recently been placed before Parlra-. raent .compelling-such butter to be plainJy marked as foreign, fermm Batisfaf tion caused by this latter amiouncement was short-lived, for in red&Wiftw her- <»uestion> f^ Minister MwJriSt ftT" 8' the ' onS-°verdue Butter .Marking Order could not bo put into .operation. before next May on, one. member of which—Mr • J « SSSte rf tte, Britai Dairy-pfraer^ expressed the opinion that the time had arrived for the imS9fabjm- forthwith of an emergency tariff pn all foreign butters of 3d to 4d a 1b an adTocatms this step, Mr. Stapleton *sok care to emphasise that it should inM S ?°.™Crease in the price of unblended butters, since New Zealand and Ssir^ mDg Dominions expected record dairying.seasons, and would therefore be Tf jf,rßl,o?,:to send "nmenso cargoes Bf butter to the Home market. WELCOME TO NEW ZEALAND CHEESE. +a£w £ f the .most interesting, and cer!S them°sfc spectacular, events of the hv ?«?f V* i^r ce«monial welcome given by the Lord Mayor of London (Sir Maurice Jenks) to the first big shipment New bZ«ffi n" fUll- Cream CheeSe frOUl A happy.inspiration on the part of the organisersthe New Zealand Dairy Produce Board resulted in the function tak£l* <%*■ £"?- g,ihe firsfi wek- of the great "Buy British" campaign. Th us , but a few hoars after the Prince of Wales had delivered his stirring call to the ai -ZJ° "B^ B«-tish ) fro Sm the Empireat Home and overseas," the public were acquainted with, the pleasant new S --by K« m' thf Pr? SS,' P^toS™P«s. talking +1 \S* ? nd, ™relsse announcenientsthat the Lord Mayor, his sheriffs, and through the streets of London to give formal greeting, to a cargo of richest cheese from Britain's youngest Dominion. The. welcoming ceremony, attended by tamous doctors, food experts, members of Parliament, and • other distinguished guests, took, place in a famous old tea dock, within a stone's throw of London .Bridge, the Lord Mayor going aboard a decorated tug and: barge t6 greet the High Commissioner for New Zealand (Sir rhotnas- Wilford) vand a bevy of New Zealand dairymaids, whose arrival was the signal for a fanfare by trumpeters of the •Royal Horse Guards ' and the throwing *»'.'hundreds of coloured streamers from adjoining •warehouses. Later over ninety guests, including representatives of various agricultural organisations, -wholesalers, and retailers, sat down to an ''economy luncheon" at which the Lord Mayor, Professor Sir Leonard Hill.,the.eminent dietist, and Sir Douglas Newton, M.P., all made'speeches commenting in happy vein upon the movement towards Home and Empire co-operat-ion and upon the value of clieese as a food. • ■ , .