MARKETING PRODUCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 4

MARKETING PRODUCE.

la a recent issue of tlio Age, the importance, of securing improved ; methods for the marketing of NewZealand dairy produce was emphasised. It has remained for Mr. T. Quirk, a prominent settler of the Forty-Mile Bush, to bring actual experience in support of this view. Mr. Quirk, who recently returned from a visit to Australia, addressed the farm ers of Pahiatua on Saturday last, and, in the course of his remarks, stated that the system of marketing dairy produce in vogue in Australia was much in advance of that of New Zealand, owing to the co-operative ! dairy companies in the Dominion hav- , ing no fixed principle of disposing of their butter and cheese. In Australia the butter of the different marketing associations is placed into the hands of two or three of the most reputable firms, and marketed under I the supervision of Home representatives. The result is that the Australian butter, though quoted at a lower price than the New Zealand article is given greater consideration by the London merchant?, and frequently returns a price equal to the latter. Mr. Quirk also quoted figures showing that some of the Victorian companies paid a bigger price for butter-fat than similar companies in the Dominion.