FREELY SOLD.
JAPANESE BUTTER.
"Some of Finest Seen" on
London Market. DOMINION INQUIRIES. United Tress Association. —Copyright. (Received 11.30 n.m.l LONDON, May 1. A shipment of 2000 boxes of Japanese butter is being- marketed. Toolev Street consignees state that it contains some of the finest they have seen. It is selling freely despite a 15/ per cwt duty.
A second shipment is\ expected shortly, and l>ig shipments are contemplated next year.
Under the supervision of Danish experts it is planned to increase the output.
Australia House officials are investigating the probable output but do not regard the Japanese butter as a serious menace at present.
Various exporters in Auckland this morning expressed surprise at the news of the Japanese entry to the London butter market. One authority with actual impressions of the Japanese industry expressed no concern as to the menace which Japanese sales in London may have for New Zealand or Australian prices. lie said that the previous output of Japan approximated 2200 tons, and added that there was not much country suited to dairy farming. For this reasons it was hardly likely that Japanese butter could ever seriously compete with the established Antipodean product.
This informant stated tliat Japanese butter was similar to Now Zealand second grade, being light in colour and of waxy texture. It was produced chiefly in Hokkaido, in the north, and had hitherto been exported only to Shanghai, where it had been marketed with obvious care to conceal its country of origin. It was sent in bulk from Japan and repacked in Shanghai. TRADE IMBROGLIO. - Japanese-Australian Outlook "Fairly Serious." TARIFF SITUATION. (ltcceived 12 noon.) TOKYO, May 1. An extraordinary session of the Tariff Commission decided to consider measures against Australian wool and wheat if the tariff situation between the Commonwealth and Japan was further aggravated. Experts reported that the present trade imbroglio was fairly serious. . _ ■-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1936, Page 9
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