INSANE MARKETING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 November 1933, Page 5

INSANE MARKETING

(Press Assn.-

MR. BAXTER ADDRESSES THE EMPIRE SOCIETY ON " QUOTAS NEW ZEALAND'S POSITION '

-By Telegraph — Copyrlght)!

London, Nov. 28. At the Empire Society luncheori, Mr. Thomas Baxter, chairman of the British Milk Marketing- Board, who recently visited New Zealand in« support of the imposition of a quota, in | an interesting way described his dis- I cussions with the dairy farmers in i New Zealand. He thought the Dairy | Produce Board looked upon the busi- j ness more from the factory side than j the farmer's side, and was interest- \

ed chiefly in getting tbe largest number of tons through' the factory. Mr. Baxter admitted tbat New Zealand's prosperity was dependent on pastoral products and therefore her difficulty was a real one, but he was quite sure that until some regulation of dairy produce was adopted and the insane practice of throwing Dominion and foreign produce on this market was stopped, there could be no rise in prices. Therefore he hoped soon to have some co-operation between the Dominion farmers and the British. Incidentally, Mr. Baxter mentioned that last summer his wife was buying New Zealand butter, delivered at her home at 8d per 1b.. while he paid ls per 1b for grease for his motor-car and fetehed it himself. This was because there was some commonsense used in marketing grease.