AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 48, 27 January 1932, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.

MORE SALES IN ENGLAND. “Despite the fact that Australia has exported nearly 10,000 to'ns more butter to the United Kingdom during this season than she did last year, there arc at the moment no more stocks on the market than at this time in 1931,” said Mr J. Russell King, who reached Sydney recently to take up the position of general-manager of the Producers’ Cooperative Distributing- Society, Ltd. Mr King has been a member of the London agency of the Dairy Export Control Board since 1924.

The present' position of the Australian butter market, said Mr King, showed that, at a price, England would, in ordinary circumstances, consume all the butter the Commonwealth could send. In the existing depression it was wonderful to think that England was about the only market available to the world’s exporters of primary products. Australian butter was now popular throughout the United Kingdom, and .was holding its own against butter from all other countries. The improvement in quality had been as outstanding as the increase in' quantity, but Australia must continue still further-to improve the standard of her exports, because it was with quality that the Commonwealth must meet competition. Every other dairying country in the world, and particularly Denmark, was straining every point to put the best possible article on the London market. - Prospects of an English tariff oh foreign foodstuffs was exercising the minds of all exporting countries, continued Mr King, and he firmly believed that such a tariff would be introduced, giving substantial preference to Empire products. There was apparent at present a distinct desire by English people to buy and .qonsume Empire goods, and the Commonwealth must try to let them have the best possible article. Selling organisations in the United Kingdom would have to be strengthened, and an effort must be made to eliminate, if possible, all f.o.b. and c.i.f. sales. This was .the only way to get the most out of the market.