N.Z. PRODUCE FOR PERU
Trial Shipments Of Butter And Mutton
“The Press" Special Service WELLINGTON, June 12.
New Zealand overseas shipping lines are showing enthusiasm in their efforts to assist in the opening up of new markets for New Zealand produce. The Shaw Savill Line’s Karamea, last January, took a cargo of New Zealand milk powder and butter to Peru on her outwardbound voyage to the United Kingdom. The vessel is again on the New Zealand coast and the master. Captain R. A. Barns, when in Wellington recently, expressed optimism for the future development of trade between Peru and the Dominion.
Captain Bams said that Peru was now to have a trial shipment of 400 tons of mutton and he was confident it would find a ready market.
* It would be wrong to assume that the Peruvian market would be an easy one, as the people there were fastidious in many ways. For instance, in the* January cargo was a consignment of tinned asparagus, but this had failed to find favour, the people of Peru preferring their asparagus bleached. To familiarise prominent business people of Lima with the excellence of New Zealand foodstuffs, while at Callao he had given an all-New Zealand luncheon.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 4
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