OUTLOOK FOR PRODUCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1921, Page 4

OUTLOOK FOR PRODUCE.

DOMINION RECORD MADE. •THE POSITION REVIEWED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Opening the conference of the Council of Agriculture to-day, the Hon. \\. Nosworthy (Minister of Agriculture! said the position in the wool industry had caused the Government much anxiety. In its arrangements with the Wool Committee the Government endeavored as far as possible to avoid placing restrictions on the sale of wool, which might hamper business. Concerning meat, high freights had prevented supplies receiving the benefit of the ruling prices in Jjondon to the extent desired. The production of dairy produce and the prices obtained constituted a record for the Dominion, and returned in the vicinity of £20,000,000. The present prospects were a great deal better than a few months ago. Had it not been for dairy produce the position of the Dominion would not have been saved. The season had commenced with a clearance of the frozen meat stores, a position not obtained (for some years.

The wheat supply had met the country’s requirements, but the oat market had nql been so good. The farming industry generally had been passing through a bad time, but he believed the day was not far distant when it would be placed on a better footing. Some big problems were ahead of the Government and the people of New Zealand. If the primary products cannot produce wealth first, then the other industries and businesses of the Dominion could not advance. The present taxation was a heavy burden to stagger under, but with prosperity the country’s future was assured. But ifi was only by the combined efforts, courage, and perseverance that the difficult problems of the present day could ba overcome.