AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE

EXPORT BOARD’S DECISIONS

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received this dav at 9. a.m.) SYDNEY, September 17

At a meeting of Australian Dairy Produce Export Board, consideration was given to suggestions by the London agency fur improving the organisation for marketing Australian butter in United Kingdom. Two Queensland* producers. T. Punket and C. Jamieson, were duly appointed to visit England to report upon the recent developments concerning marketing production and selling of Australian butter in pats, direct to consumers, an extension of trade in the midlands, and a continuance or otherwise of the advertising p rop aga n da.

The Board emphasises the probability of future severe competition of Danish butter selling in pats in United Kingdom and a certain curtailment of buying orders a s a result of the merging of large companies, and the pooling of orders by Grocers Associations. The Board reduced the levies on the export of butter to one thirtieth of a penny per lb, and one sixtieth of a penny per lb on cheese.

The fund for advertising propaganda in London was greatly cut, owing to the economic conditions. The quantity of hotter in cold stores in Australia on August 80 was 1157 tons.