FAVOURABLE OUTLOOK

Taranaki Central Press, Volume V, Issue 457, 26 June 1937, Page 5

FAVOURABLE OUTLOOK

EXPORTS TO BRITAIN i Home Production Question • Press Association —Copyright Hamilton, June 25. 1 Describing the general outlook for ! New Zealand producers as not unj favourable, Professor W. Riddet, Dir- ■ uctor of the Dairy Research Institute, } Palmerston North, informed the Na- ; t ional Dairy Conference to-day that ' for various reasons material increase i in British milk production need not |be anticipated. This was partly bei cause of subsidy and other measures I introduced to" protect other branches j of agriculture. i "New Zealand* is specially inter- | ested* in the United Kingdom’s sur- ! plus milk and the United Kingdom I in New Zealand’s, cheese production,” I Professor Riddet said. “Britain I makes anilually about 57,000 tons of 1 cheese, nearly 27 per cent of her to- ; tai consumption of approixmately J 200,000 tons. Of this New Zealand ' supplies roughly 45 per cent. An im- ; mediate increate in New Zealand’s | cheese output would not be welcome, I but there is no need for reduction, i Further. New Zealand cheese must ■ not, by its quality or brand, reduce | the genera] prestige of cheese. In j this connection, the trade has not •yet forgotten is antagonism to New j Zealand standardised milk cheese.”