EUTTER FOR LINEN

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 46, 23 February 1934, Page 11

EUTTER FOR LINEN

TRADE WITH ULSTER Viscountess Craigavbn, wife of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, recently strongly urged , the' people of tho north to buy New Zealand butter and cheese in the ■winter, when the home-produced article Is not prbcurable (reports the "Irish Tinies")'. She was opening n shop in Royal Avenue, Belfast, taken by the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board in furtherance of a fortnight's, effort to popularise these Dominion products. .■••,... Lady Craigavon apologised fpr the absence of her husband, who was in bed with a bad cold. He was, she said, in entire sympathy with the movement, which was in no way antagonistic to tho "Push Ulster Goods'' campaign. Tho Ulster butter trade, she stated, is only seasonal. About £600,000 a year is spent on imported butter, and it would be better to spend that money in the Empiro rather than with Denmark or some other place. Denmark buys "Ulster linen to the extent of 3}d 'per head of population, while New Zealand takes 2s worth per head. They had in Ulster just received orders for the building of six ships for the New Zealand trade, and she,cordially hoped that the goods they brought home from New Zealand .would result in more Ulster goods being sent, out there. Speaking of tho ties which bind New Zealand to: tho homeland, Lady Craigavon said that before the amalgamation of the North and South Islands to form the Dominion, North Island was called New Ulster, and is, to this day, peopled largely by descendants of settlers from Ulster. . , : .-■■;■" A telegram was read from Lord Carson expressing the hope that • Ulster will support the products of New Zealand. •