DAIRY PRODUCE
JAPAN'S POSITION.
NO MARKET FOR DOMINIQN.
Japan offers no prospects for New Zealand dairy products because she is now an exporter of butter and milk and her Government has embarked on a comprehensive programme of developing- the dairying industry by means of subsidies and other assistance, according to MrClement Ah Chee,  an Aucklander now resident in Hongkong, in a letter to the "Herald." Mr Ah Chee points out that the first substantial shipment of butter from Japan has arrived in London. Small quantities of a few tons have been received in Tooley Street during the last 12 months, but these have been samples rather than commercial consignments. The recent shipment of 50 tons marked the first serious attempt by the Japanese to market butter in the United Kingdom and it was expected that if the shipment was favourably received it would be followed by others.
GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE.
"From 1925 the Japanese Government has been giving continuous assistance to the dairy industry,, which has responded with an ever-increasing output," stated Mr Ah Chee "Japanese agricultural students have been sent abroad to study farming methods in other countries whose systems they have adopted. Onequarter of the expense involved in the importation of foreign-bred cattle is met by the Government, which has also been lending free of charge the breeds kept at its livestock experimental station."
Mr Ah Chee adds that an example of the development of the Japanese dairying industry is provided by the growth of condensed milk production. Japan was a substantial importer of condensed jnilk for many years, but since 1931 she has been an exporter of this commodity. Also the butter produced in Hokkaido and Koiwai has increased in quantity and improved in quality until it has driven imported butters off the market.
Referring to the export of wool to Japan, Mr Ah Chee states that Sir Henry Gullett, chairman of the Australian tariffs commission, recently discussed with the Japanese Consul in Melbourne, Tokio's new counterproposals in respect to the lately revised Australian tariffs, and stated after the interview that Japan was a poor customer to Australia in every product except wool.
WOOLLEN INDUSTRY
The expenditure of a large sum, most of which will be used to encourage sheep-breeding in Manchukuo, to meet Japan's ever-growing demand for wool, has been decided upon by the Nippon Woollen Industry Society, according to Mr Ah Chee. Definite plans for the utilisation of the funds are being discussed by Mr Sakoi Tsurmi, managing director of the society, with Government officials and the South Manchuria Railway Company. The society was established in 1934 with a capital of 2,000,000 yen, half of which was subscribed by the Government, 300,000 yen by the South Manchuria Railway, and the remainder by the woollen industrialists. Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVII, Issue 55, 17 July 1936, Page 8