ANDLING DAIRY PRODUCE AT HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 130, 3 June 1903, Page 2

ANDLING DAIRY PRODUCE AT HOME.

IQE following remarks on ths subject ara extracted from tha aunuil report of the National Diiry Association of New Zealand (South Island), to be presented 'o tha meeihg to day: - A buyer writesHure in England we hive had a ve y curious sraeoD. There has been a tremendous eflorls on the part of consignmeit met to smash those who bought. But 88 we cleared cut almost entirely, we don'i; suffer as they fondly expected wo should. Anyway, the result will be very b .ra for thoss who co-isigned, and I consignment men will ficd it difficulty mske headway next year. I could ell you soma strange , tales of the games played with New 2?a!and buttt.r. ft is perfectly pitiable to see good stufl chucked about in tha way it has been, ind even buyers th natives have told me repeatedly that they cannot get a prcfit for the Id retail cut; and ye' Urge cutting retailers come in, buy cheaply, and cat the price at Is, •naiiiog it useless for everybody; whereaß if the pries hud besn miin■ained steidy at 106/108 box would Lave b en sold at Is 2«3» and everybody made a fait and reisonab'e profl l- '. The s'atistics and everything ■vere favourable for this, and the drop in prices is due to tha action of those parties who are as well known on this side as ynurs. The factori-a' men on your side have been h avy losers through this scandalous Campaign;' 1 A fir,ill wLd handled consignments says: '• The market his been very disappointing this season, so many London and provincial houses, in view cf the shortage of he Victorian outpu*, having scored a 'grtat deal of but'er at too high a fignre. The losses h >va ben heavy, and the c >ld-std ed supplies have been a d' ad weight on our marked fill tha season; Of course. Now Zea'and has fuffired in sympathy; But tha market has beßn Undtlly depressed by some London houses, who sold a large quantity without having covered their sales, and, further, soma former friends of New Z plsnd have been doing their bist all the season to get the prices down. If we were to disclose half we know about these tac'ics the factory men would be ve y much surprised and astonished."

lathis connection ibis well-known that some houses who usually handle New Z 'aland bu tor, but who, this year, had only a little or none, deliberately st;rted to " bear" the market by celling forward Now butter \t 104s, the pries b.ing then 108 i. I? must have baen wall-known that they were " bears" and had no bu te'-, and is seems a pity that tho3e who ready held our butter were so disiigaoised that th?y could not the (firae and u've these "baars" a severe lesson. iJnder even limited organisation it could not hxve been diffie il& to do this, bu', those who hxudled New 2! laland butter were evilea'ly ro; a happy family, and s>the " baara" trlump'ud, and brought butter down to IOOi and mide a good thing out of it. It is siid chat these firms are ratbet proud of their smart transactions.

Mr Kinselh, our late Dairy Oomm's stone', b;foreleaving, sa d"lu 1902 our best brands of butter were fetching p ices very close to those obtaiued by the Daneii What, tLefa, accou .ts for the wide differeics in prioj du'ing th 6 past season between cur butter and Duiih ? It would naturally besugg that the qiiility of our butter tfr.js at fault. We, howetr .r, hive received no r,port to this effeo*. Our butter ruled at ve 'y high prides fit the beginning of the s?aßor>, lu my opiaion, large stocks of stored goods and the greatly inereisad impo.'ts of Danish and Rusa'an- butters indicad those handling Naw 2«land butter to reduce tho price much lelow that of Dinish, feiring a block in the market when h avy stocks srj arriviog." Mr H. O. Cameron says:—"The reguhr and steady manner in which Denmark has sent her but f er into th° markets of this country has hid much to do with the gain in price this F«a?on over New £ealanj> New s9iland s<nd« partly ob cons'gnment and p.r'Jy to new purch«ers Bands have consequently bean diverted from old channel*. Denmark, as I have fo> merly pointed out, sends regularly tho same brands ot butter to the same agen's in the same centres for the supply of the sam« customers year after year, and so caters for the markets she has built up. This is not attempted in New Zialand, where the cons-ant chinge from consignment to sal*) sale so consignments from one buyer dr agent to another, and from one market to anoiher is not at all canduoive to obtaining the best results."