DOMINION PRODUCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 66, 28 December 1928, Page 7

DOMINION PRODUCE.

EXHIBITION AT LIVERPOOL. One of the first duties of the new Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Alderman Miller) was to open a fortnight's exhibition of New Zealand dairy produce, so that Liverpool might better appropriate the qualities of Dominion produce.

In his speech, the Lord Mayor said: "When Sir James Parr (the New" Zealand High Commissioner) was here recently, he said Liverpool was splendidly suited for supplying 20,000,000 people in the Midlands, but I do not think the overseas people quite appreciate the advantages that would be gained by making more use of Liverpool as a distributing centre. We have the accommodation. Nor do I think the citizens realise what they are doing when they give foreign goods preference over the goods of our own kith and kin. • If they would only insist on procuring Dominion goods it would not be long before a direct shipping line between here and New Zealand would prove a paying proposition." Mr L. A. P. Warner (general manager of the Dock Board) also referred to the question of direct shipments. He said the Board had been trying hard for the last six years to get them. The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress were welcomed by Mr Alexander McFetterick (president of the Liverpool Produce Exchange), who said New Zealand's prosperity was linked up with theirs. The exhibition, which was a direct sequel to Sir James Parr's visit, was organised by the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board. It gave the Liverpool public the opportunity of sampling New Zealand butter and cheese and of seeing the hygienic manufacturing methods of New Zealand daires.