EASTERN MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 6

EASTERN MARKETS

NEW ZEALAND'S CHANCE

"SHOULD NOT BE MISSED"

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day.

For the first time in her history the Mariposa, when she sailed from Auckland today, took more refrigerated cargo than general cargo. Much of it is for the East and is to be transhipped at Honolulu.

The refrigerated portion includes butter for Singapore, Japan, Honolulu, and San Francisco, cheese for Shanghai, Hong Kong, and San Francisco, meat for Singapore, Honolulu, and San Francisco, and chilled beef for Honolulu. The general cargo includes light ale for Pago Pago.

A representative of the Matson Line said today that the exports from Auckland to the Pacific Coast during the past six months had been 45 per cent, greater than in the same period last year. This he attributed to the disastrous drought in the M'ddle West of the United States following on the reduction of herds under the N.R.A. scheme. The combined effect was a shortage of butter, cheese, tallow, and meat. During' the past two years America haj bought large quantities of tallow fro: a- New Zealand at high prices.

"New Zealand has now a good chance of getting into the Eastern trade," he said, "as America is temporarily unable to supply fully the markets which have been hers for years, while New Zealand can. It is an opportunity which should not be. missed of placing New Zealand produce on Eastern markets."