NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 57, 14 April 1914, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

FLOODING PACIFIC COAST.

SOME VIOLENT CRITICISM. By Cable.- —Press Association.—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 13.

The "Daily Telegraph's" San Francisco correspondent says that the flooding of the markets on the Pacific Coast with New Zealand butter has had a disastrous effect on the sales of the American product.' Prices have fallen to a record level, 22 cents a pound being the quotation, wholesale for best creamery butter. Violent criticism is made respecting certain consignments of New Zealand butter.

A Seattle firm' states that' if New Zealand expects to do a considerable amount of butter business it must make radical changes in the matter of inspection. When butter is bought under New Zealand • Government certificate, as being strictly first-class, and is found to be second and third, this naturally causes firms to buy sparingly. The remedy lies in having an expert t * follow up the inspectors and examine the butter before exportation. Instances have been found where the butter has been held 30 days after the Government officially stamped it. It should be exported while fresh.