NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

Widespread Advertising In England MORE THAN AUSTRALIAN Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, January 12. A statement: that New Zealand butter ,and meat was far more widely advertised in England than Australian produce was made by Mr. Palmer Kent, former chief inspector of the Bank of Australasia in Sydney, who arrived at Auckland by the Maeisuycker on the last stage of a world tour lasting 10 months. He is accompanied by his wife and two daughters. “New Zealand butter and lamb is placarded all over the country,” said Mr. Kent, who travelled 5000 miles through England by motor-car. "There is no advertisement for Australian butter, and I can assume only that it is sold under a different label. In June of last year New Zealand and Danish butter was selling at the same price of 1/24, whereas there is usually a difference of 14d. or 2d. a lb. Other things being equal, English people bought Danish butter, but they demanded New Zealand butter if it could be obtained more cheaply.” .Mr. Kent said he had had a long talk with an official in the meat trade in Liverpool, and he found that the general opinion seemed to be that stock was killed when too old in New Zealand, and it was not exactly to the taste of English people. However, to offset this, higher prices asked for English beef and mutton meant that people bought New Zealand products He had purchased; a pound of English lamb chops from a shop and had been charged 2/-.

Mr. Kent visited Germany, and, as a result of conversations' with people in Hamburg, he considered they were greatly afraid of war. He stopped for a day in Berchtesgaden, where Herr Hitler, Mr. Chamberlain, Signor Mussolini and M. Daladier held their fateful talks, but his main impression was that he was followed round the town by someone, presumably a member of the secret police.