MARKETS FOR BUTTER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 8 January 1927, Page 9

MARKETS FOR BUTTER

ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL CITIES BIG POPULATION AVAILABLE SUGGESTION TO DAIRY BOARD. (Hi TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION .) AUCKLAND, Jan. 8. Mr J. H. Parker, of Leicester, who is on a visit to New Zealand, yesterday expressed the opinion that the greater exploitation of the industrial centres of L'.nglamd by the Dairy Produce Board would result in increased sates at prices which could be made to compare favourably with Denmark’s, if more forethought were given to direct supply. New Zealand was too prone to regard London as the whole of Engand, butthere was nothing to stop butter being sent direct to Manchester, within a radius of 20 miles of which was a population greater than London’s. Another factor that would tend to make New Zealand butter popular in the Midlands was the fact that many of the Dominion imigrants came from that part, and a feeling of reciprocity was even now apparent. Empire trade hais made great strides in the past year, and the fact that people at Home had relatives and friends in New Zealand would create interest in this country s produce.