NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 180, 14 May 1935, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

"ENCOURAGING MARKET IN HAWAII."

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 13

There is an encouraging market for New Zealand butter in Hawaii, according to Mr N. Nash, manager of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, who arrived by the Aorangi. Mr Nash is a former New Zealander, who has been in business in Honolulu for the last 14 years.

A duty of 14 cents a pound was imposed on New Zealand butter in Hawaii, Mr Nash said; but in spite of that it sold at 40 cents (about Is 8d) a pound in the shops. It was advertised as coming from New Zealand, and many people in Honolulu preferred it to any other variety. A recent order from the United States Government, that all meat supplies for the forces in Hawaii should be purchased from the United States, had affected the New Zealand meat export trade with the islands.

Conditions in Hawaii were improving steadily. Aided by a Government quota scheme, the sugar industry had advanced rapidly, and more than a million tons of raw cane sugar were exported annually. Last year the export of pineapples totalled 176,000,000 tins, and co-operative organisation was proving of great benefit to the industry.