N.Z. PRODUCE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10921, 12 June 1929, Page 5

N.Z. PRODUCE

FACTORY AND: LONDON HOUSE

ESTABLISH ING PERSONAL .. CONTRACT. '

HOME EXPERT’S TOUR

PRAISE FOR i:DOMINION factories:

HOME EXPERT'S TOUR

PRAISEFOR DOMINION FACTORIES.

“In my tour of th© New Zealand dairy lactones, .I. have been . especial>; struck- by tile- great prosperity ol the industry and the unremitting care and attention of all concerned to. make it (.still bi’ggeb” stated Mr. .1. Bollard, senior partner in the Too ley Street firm of Messrs Samuel I’a.-ge- and Son., selling agents in London for Messrs i)iilget v and Cov m conversation with a Times representative yesterday! In those words the 'London visitor summed up his impressions of- the many Dominion lactones which he has • already inspected on his present tour. Mr.' Pollard landed in Auckland on May 20- and, since then, has been touring the middle and northern portions ol .the. North Island, going even up as far as Kaikohe and Dargaville. down through the Waikato, to Taupo Mliakatane, Opotilci, and now has reached /Gjfeboi-he. In the. three •weeks since landing, Mi:. Pollard has visited exactly 30 dairy factories, spending from two to two and a-half hour- at each, and also such gatlierings as the Waikato. Show. To-day he- will visit the two local factories anirl to-morrow lie goes up the Coast as far iis Ihiatbria,-visiting the two Coast factories' also. During his visit here he will attend the'Winter Show, lie- will probably continue his tour south on Friday.

Mr. Pollard explained that the object of his visit was to establish personal contact with New Zealand dairy factories, so that lie could learn as much as possible- of local conditions and also to. inform the factories of the views held by London merchants. By .this interchange of ideas, if was hoped that the two extremes of the industry would come closer together and the trade between. them considerably facilitated and expanded. Commenting on the quality of New Zealand dairy produce now sent Home," Mr. Pollard staled that he did not believe for a moment, that, on. the average, it had gone back. Certainly the produce from some districts was.being graded lower than previously, hut the whole output made a higher average grading than hitherto —a most satisfactory ; state of affairs. Publicity work at Home was good and was obtaining results. ‘•But,’' added Air. Pob&rd, "your best advertisement of all is the quality of your butter and cheese.” The bulk of the trade in the N.Z. urticlo at Home, Mr. Pollard continued, lay in London, but there was also a good deal of business in. other parts of England, especially in the south and, to a.lessor extent, in the far west, the eastern portion, the Midlands and Wales. A small quantity went to the north, but this was a very minor portion of th e trade. "This, difference, can be explained,” said Mr. Pollard, "by the fact that, Hi the south, boxed butter is in demand, whereas, in the north, it is easked butter that is wanted. And all the N.Z. butter is iii boxes. Nevertheless there nr© certain possibilities in direct shipments to the north—-though the trade there is unlikely ever to attain great -proportions—and sueli a scheme deserves encouragement.” .Mr. Pollard remarked that lie was watching with great interest an experiment by another Toolev Street firm which proposed to .offer N.Z. butter for sale in lib. and £lh. pats, with the wrappers indicating that the produce came from New Zealand. The drawback to this scheme lay in the point, that rimny people could not afford to buy the butter in such quantities, having to he content, instead, with 2oz. and 4oz. lots. All flutter at Home, he pointed out. was sold from the bulk and the N.Z. system of pats had been unknown hitherto for the reason mentioned.