BULK SALE OF N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCE TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Grey River Argus, 17 April 1948, Page 4

BULK SALE OF N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCE TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT

May Continue for Four Tears

P,A. ' WELLINGTON, April 16 Discussions on the conditions of sale and on the price which Britain will pay for New Zealand butter and cheese in the 1948-49 export season will be opened in London next month, between the New Zealand Dairy Products Marketing Commission and the United Kingdom Ministry of Food. The Chairman of the Commission, Mr W. Marshall, said to-day that, i, addition to price talks, there would be negotiations concerning the extension of'the bulk sale and purchase arrangements beyond the 1949-50 season. Mr Marshall said that it had been agreed in 1946 that the parties would confer in 1948 on the desirability of extending the contract, for a further period of two years to coveiproduction in New Zealand until July 31, 1952. But it has already been arranged that consideration would be given to an extension beyond that date.

The Dairy Commission’s team for the talks will be the chairman, Mr Marshall. Messrs B. C. Ashwin and R. A. Candy, members of the Commission: together with Mr G. M. Pottinger. general manager. Mr Candy has already left by a steamer. Messrs Marshall and Ashwin are scheduled to leave New Zealand on May 7. travelling by air, and Mr Pottinger will follow shortly after. •