Dairy Sales Achievement

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 3

Dairy Sales Achievement

(N.Z. Press Association) I WELLINGTON, April 12. New Zealand has sold South Africa almost £3 million worth of dairy products this season. The sales include 7500 tons of butter, 750 tons of cheese and 1000 tons of milk powder. Sales had been made against the competition of other major dairy exporting countries, the Dairy Board said in a statement today. The butter sale is the largest made by New Zealand in any one season to any

country outside the United! Kingdom in the last 10 years. The butter has been sold | entirely in 11b and 41b branded pats. It is the biggest sale of New Zealand branded pats on record. Past major sales have generally been for butter packed in bulk. The sales are described by the board as a “breakthrough” in the South African market and “all the more important because South Africa might well prove a contin-ing buyer.” The board has close relations with the South African Dairy Industry Board which is importing the butter and cheese. It sends representatives i regularly to South Africa and

keeps the needs of the South African market under study. The terms of the butter; sale call for delivery between March and September. Because the orders making up the 7500 tons came late in the season, the industry’s export patting plants had to work extended hours to get the first shipment ready. This was of almost 2000 tons and was loaded at Auckland last month in the Coptic. The ship also took on a quantity of milk powder at Auckland and some cheese. It loaded more cheese at Wellington and will complete loading of the 750-ton cheese order at Bluff this week. She will sail from Bluff for South i Africa on Thursday. The cargo will be discharged at Durban. Port I Elizabeth and Cape To wn.