MARKETS IN EAST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 983, 28 May 1930, Page 13

MARKETS IN EAST

DAIRY PRODUCE OUTLET CONFERENCE RESOLUTION The Dairy Control Board is to be urged to endeavour to open up new markets for New Zealand Dairy Produce in China, India and Japan. A resolution to this effect was passed at the North Auckland Dairy Conference yesterday. Mr. J. H. Haywood said New Zealand could not continue to pour ever-in-creasing quantities of produce into England. Australia and the Baltic States had all increased their exports to Great Britain by leaps and bounds and a trade agreement had been entered into with Russia, another great producer. The cutting of prices made it difficult for New Zealand to produce butter at a price to compete successfully with nearby countries. The huge populations in the East # had not yet been touched by the dairy producers and it was well-known that the Eastern" people were large consumers of butter. “Let me disabuse the minds of members,” said the chairman, Mr. W. Grounds. “Although there are teeming millions of people in the East it must be remembered that for .the most pkrt they have existed and still exist on a few handfuls of rice. Even if they had the money to pay for dairy produce it would take more than a generation to educate the people to use it. The experience of commercial firms which have attempted to popularise New Zealand dairy produce in China and India shows that at present the market is not payable. It will be better to concentrate on existing markets.” After various opinions had been expressed the remit was carried.