DAIRY BOARD

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1932, Page 6

DAIRY BOARD

REVIEW .iOE OPERATIONS,

proposed Trade with east

(By Telegraph — Pt. Press Association /

PA'LMEtISTO'N NORTH June, 23. The operations of the Dairy Board were reviewed in an address by the 'Board’s chairman, (.Mi- W. lorns), at the National Dairy Conference. | Referring to Ottawa, he said that it was the Board’s opinion that tbe conference, will be of the greatest im- j portance to New Zealand. j 1 The dairy industry has been opposed by commercial interests, and lih e : 'city press in • efforts to secure adequate representation, whether or ndt the quota will be acceptable to j Britain. This system bad crept into the Continental countries, and the Board’s idea was that New Zealand’s ' quota should be on a sliding scale, and ; 4he : -United Kingdom quotas for Con- , tinental countries to decrease in pro- I [■'portion as New Zealand’s ■ production increased. | The dairy industry would he very lucky if it could,, give sufficient at ’Ottawa to receive the reciprocity they ] sou ght: The dairy ' industry must be, I pVepaYcd to give something a little 'e'xtra in duty on fqreign imports into | 'Hie Dbihinion, if it was to secure any-, tiling. Tlie British ragriculturalist was right with New " Zealand in trying to i ..obtain higher ;qiiqths against foreign "competition \ LA-*: j | ..Dealing with, exchange, Mr lorns said that-: Board members never 5 ed- ! yocatyd a : rise ip the rate. All they ''sought was that it be allowed to go! free. A great injustice had been done j the primary exporter in not allowing j him to get the full value of his money. I It was high time that there was an | organisation to prevent the control of the situation by banks. An additional £8,000,000 !would have been secured for primary producers in New Zealand had the exchange market been allowed, to go free. He considered that hbw exchange was to lie lifted, the rate s would rise, being free of control. Speaking of markets, he said that efforts were being, made to establish markets in the East. A representative of a Japanese shipping line had informed him that the institution of adirect,: cargo service :between New Zea- . land and, jthe Easfi jvas contemplated. ■ ProbqWy h trade delegation of leading merchants: would visit New Zealand, following (which a. meeting would be held at- Shanghai in August This,-;fear the (hundred thousand tons ipark in buttel i exports had been ' reached for the fii'sjt time, i Concluding, Mr dpns said that the i|*Bbard had returned] the dairy industry eight hundred andj fifty per cent, on ! the whole levies pih.il, 5 The . total sov•ings amountef ts to. •i^TJacf# Half mil r i lions Levies, paicL’fifo—feoard since 11924 we'rg £339,803; " At the;|National Dairy Conference a remit \va| submitted by Tui Company that a voteyso.f prtfdi'iCevs 'bfeTtaken on tbe question whether producers were in favour of the retention or the disbanding the Dairy Board. This was emphatically. negatived on th e voieof.