WELLINGTON NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1923, Page 1

WELLINGTON NOTES.

DAIRY PRODUCER. QUEST!OX OF MARKETING.

" [Special To The Guardian.] m 1 | WELLINGTON, April L‘3 ni j The representatives of a number o ll | dairy factories are meeting in Welling j ion this week for the purpose of dis 1 ! cits-ing various questions in connectioi ! c j with their business, .and Air J. li. -Mae l> Kwan, the head ut the well-known ftrn !l ot export merchants, has taken the up--1 portunity to place a number of stiggos- • tiers before them through the columns of tic newspapers. This morning he ha- n letter in the “Dominion" sum- '' I innrising his views on the t|iicstion of ' j marketing dairy produce, and one para'(graph from this eontrihution to the 'j mass of literature on the subject will 1 j hear repetition. “Our great need today, ’’ .Mi MacEunu writes, “is some arrangement hy which New Zealand dairy produce can he placed upon the British markets at regular and short intervals the year round. It is delivery in this way that gives Canadian and j Danish producers their assured place in II Ik British market-. New Zealand butter and cheese, on the other hand, goes forward in large quantities in the flush of 11 jo .*o*l soli, in ‘•insillor quaiititie- as tin- season wanes and then ceases altogether. The result is that for a considerable pari of the year New Zealand blitter is not available to the Home consumer and in its absence lie turns to other brands and so loses the Xew Zealand habit..” This, .Mr MaeKwan insists, ha- to he remedied before the producers can obtain what should he the lull fruits of their labour. THE RKM.EDV. Mr .Maeliwiin does not raise problems without attempting their solution, “My | own idea," he goe- onto say, “is that a small dele gat inn of representatives of tin' various interests concerned should he sent to Canada, Denmark and Cleat Britain, to stud; at close quarters the practices and conditions prevailing in these countries. Such a delegation would he warmly received in j (treat Britain and very substantial a--! sisfance would I;■ volunteered. If a joint effort of this kind were made with the moral support of Ihe Covornmenl, no special legislation would he required and the result, I am sure, would he invaluable. There is going to lie keen competition for i 1 to Home markets nr it is imperative that Xew Zealand should not bo beaten in the contest. Shipping remains a very grave problem, and it is only by co-ordination on a broad practical basis that the problem ' can he solved.” Mr .MacKwan, as is * generally known, was at one time closely connected with the dairy industry i

Canada, and since throwing in his lot with Now Zealand has visited both the I senior Dominion and Denmark in search oi iniormatiun in regard to their method, TIGHTENING UP THE I.AW. l'of many years past the clause o! the (laming Aei which prohibits the publication oi “tips" in connection with rate.- has heen practically a dead letter. The newspapers have gone gaily on their way advising their readers. more or le-s directly, what to hack at inri hi-<>ming meetings and their readers probably have heen neither poorer nor richer for the breach of the law. But now the Minister of Internal Affairs has made up his mind that the | law i- to he enforced anil the local papers were advised to this elfecL la-f week. Their attempts -till to convey advice to the public without inviting the attention of the Police were very amusing yesterday, and perhaps not altogether u’linstrueiive. Their “picks" were di-piii-el a< hor-es that had won at -a in • ret out melding or had done an excellent gallop only tin' day before. A wild;, of coarse, is as good as a nod to the blind hacker and probably in this ease, it conveyed as much informal ion a. a more direct iniimatioii v.oiihl have iho'c. The authorities are little dubious, alter a day’s experience, of their ability to give effect, to foe .Mini-tor’s new iound zeal, and a test cue may be necessary to softie the quo -lion. The legal mind inclines to the view l hat Midi a lest Would r'suit in tlie .-nine way as did the attempl to-prevent the publication of the order of fnvnirili-m in race reports. RKI.ICiO.V IX POLITICT A very spirited nrthle dealing with fho Inlrodui linn of sod ariani-m into the Tauranga hy-eleelion contest, published by tlie “Auckland Star” the other day, ha- encouraged tlie 'New Zealaml Time-" to touch upon the .-.•line subject. “ll is notable," the l.ihnamaru contest, “that the Rev Howard Elliott is in (he South, in all the glory of his recently expressed determination to coiiliniie the holy war which he haundertaken against the Liberal Party. That lie will make good his declaration by carrying tlie holy war into Oatnnru may ho more ilian surmised from his demtncial ion of the Liberal Party for it- breach of Protestant principles by it- support of Sir Joseph Wanl. We v.ili not insult .Ministers hy suggesting that they will welcome the intervention." This is a subject on which one cannot put a direct question to the .Mini-tor.-, hut it is only fair to other prominent Reformers to say they have expressed strong- disapproval of Mr EHioit’s methods.