AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

.■.Brio >.vc 11 I.. ).>, i I.>.< Ijl Ai.t I i . Y\ Kl.i .i.s ■■ min, Jan. Australia in,.* own ummwi.g .\c» /.ca,an., 10,11 111 Luc unliving industry. and l lie «g.,.(l le.sllils 01 (■mcn.incut grading, id a o,.ipanu'il oy insli'...Ilun 1 rum g.-ic-Kitl men. arc neiug sjiud 11 111 l,c improve.! (jiialiLV oi loc iiutput 1 rom many .sen ,-30(1111 >' arcs ami \ ictoriaii lactones wnicli were visited hy Air T. C. Brush, secretary ot Hie .Aim /.calami Dairy I'.xport 1 Annul iioard, woo has i.-tumed Irmii a visit to Australia. .Mr JLirusli is quite ready to admit that the milled s,.ggcstion icuiit London to-day, regarding, Australia s cnaiice of getting its price maigiu uji to New /.caiiuio s is exi client. "I am nut a bigoted New /(inlander," remaiKcd Air nrasli to a rcpieseiitativc 01 loc "j.ylloiLiui limes,'’ “and I am jirep.ired to aonnt tliaL the bosL luilLcrs in Aoslialia are equal la our min. In tile past A usual in 11 producers, stillered I rom lack ol Government grading- and prm tical instruction, imt they have taken a leaf I rom our hook, g,citing over their nalitiica|)s. They have also gone to the extent ol adopting Federal control oi the export id tiaii i produce. \’ii Inria and New South Male.-, which 1 visited have a record dairying season, the rains having heen good and the country being in splendid condition. Anticipating, however, reduced prices tor export, these States have dropped prices for local consumption. The lactones in the I -si dairying districts are .selling one pound pats to stores at Is did. which is less than export parity at present.”

.Mr Brasil has definite evidence that New Zealand dairying producers have an advantage .over Commonwealth piodiicers in connection with oveis.eas penny per lb. better oil in cheese freights. “They are paying Is (id a box to London and we are paying -Is. AAV are also tinve-thirty-seconds of a penny per lit. heller oil’ in cheese freights, though their cheese export is not very large. An opinion was expressed to me that New Zealand has gained an advantage in shipping nnd insurance contracts through having a good central organisation, which Australia does not possess for the purpose of negotiating important matters. I hoy admitted freely that not only in freights hut in insurance we were hotter "off. hut they are overcoming their handicaps, for they recognise that control of primary produc ts should be in the hands of the producers themselves to a great extent.”