MARKETS WANTED

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1932, Page 12

MARKETS WANTED

FOR GREATER DAIRY OUTPUT

OPPORTUNITY IN THE EAST

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

STRATFORD, I7th November

While' expressing satisfaction with the increase .in. production tho .Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. K. Masters), when, opening the Stratford 'show' to-day, said that the. question of .what to do with the produce merited serious consideration. The farmers of' Britain, ho said, were probably having the most anxious timo for'many;years. One could not but express'sympathy with them in.the unfortunate position in which they found themselves. Relief had been givbn as a result of .the Ottawa agreements both as regards protection- and quantitative restrictions .on! foreign, produce. This had now"been extended'to include for a period Dominion-meats. Having received, a protection for meat, and in view of the tremendous increase in dairy produce going to Britain, a possible quantitative ; restriction might be demanded for foreign and Dominion supplies. . An increased, production of-butter ancl cheese ; estimated ■at 35,0,00 tons for New Zealand.and Australia this year was all/ going, to the British', market. ■ Unless,New'Zealand, like Australia, attempted to find 'new" markets she was going to be well up against it. 'Speaking of the necessity of finding new. markets in the East, Mr. Masters combated a statement made by Mr. W. Goodfellow" at'a- Taranaki-mceting- on Monday that no. adequate', market was | available: in. tJio East, us the. teeming i millions there were unable to buy. It, 1 was true that the teeming millions in tho East'were "in the main povertystricken, said Mr. Masters. "However, ' the fact remains that the Eastern coun- : Cries last year took millions of pounds; '■ worth, of milk products, made up of 1 cheese, butter, and powdered and con- \ densed milk. - Those responsible for the ' marketing of New Zealand produce ; should' use their utmost endeavours to secure.a share'of. that trade. As each ■ year passes opportunities are more diffii cult to. find. The' New Zealand ' Co- ; operative Dairyv Company is at present r supplying ' several Eastern markets. "■ That company is. already. sending butter'and milk powder, etc., to the East. "Isay.^there is a.market for butter, J cheese, wool, meat, hides, skins, and

fruit,".Mr..Masters added. ''I want to impress upon the New Zealand farmer, not to be content to put all his eggs in one basket, more especially when our principal market' is ' rapidly being oyer-supplied."