Butter Marketing

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 33, 23 February 1937, Page 7

Butter Marketing

"OOCKATOO."

(To the Editor.) Sir~ According to present statistics, there is considerably more New Zealand butter on hand m London for eale now than there was at this .date last year, and many attribute that fact to the reduced price ruling for our produce. This in a measure may be eorrect, and is another reason that shows the mismanagement of the Government marketing. I undertstand that all private direct selling to distributors in England has been abandoned under the Government 's selling arrangement. Eor a good number of years private operating distributors in different large centres in England have purehased and arranged for shipment of their siipplies "forward" on a c.i.f. basis. These 6hipments have been made throughout the year as arranged and gone .direct on arrival at the Port of London to the different centres they were ordered for, thus never coming on the London market for sale, The price paid for these private purehases has in most cases been-ahoad of the ruling figure offering, 'but it suited certain distributors to arrangeahead their purehases for the season. As this method of . business is now out of operation, these buyers have naturally to make their arrahgements through other channels, and so in many towns our butter will go out of use. It is an awkward thing to tamper with existing business connections, and in this case may prove very costly to the New Zealand dairy-farmer. — Yours, etc.,

Hastings, Feb. 21, 1937.