MORE BUTTER WANTED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 October 1927, Page 5

MORE BUTTER WANTED.

STRIKE-FREE LONDON’S NEEDS. GOOD NEWS FOR NEW ZEALAND. A passenger by the Mntaroa to Auckland was Mr F. G. Grainger, of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board. As a. refrigerating expert he had been stationed in the London office for several months to investigate the problems connected with the proper care and handling of butter and cheese at the London end of the business.

People M r ho hear of it for the first time often wonder M'hy the New Zealand produce, such as frozen meat, is all transhipped at Tilbury" Docks into lighters and then t 0M r ed up to the London ivarehouses. This procedure is due to one of the many" anomalies that exist' in some of these Old World ports. For many y r ears the lightermen of London have enjoyed certain privileges and immunities from taxes, and ou-ing to that fact they" can compete more than favourably" u r ith other forms of transport betu'een the docks and the city. It has been found cheaper by several shillings a ton to have the New Zealand meat thus brought up the Thames, and the actual results shou" that the - produce does not suffer by the process. Dissatisfied with the high, charges made in London by the freezing companies. for. storing, the .butter, and cheese, the New Zealand Meat Board has recently- exercised its option over land in London near Smithfield. Whether the Dairy" Produce Board will come into the arrangement is not known. In reply to a question as to the present season, Mr Grainger said the prospects for good business were excellent. Last season was ushered in with a big carry-over from the previous season, owing to the big strike in Britain seriously affecting the buying power of the public. Conditions in Britain were improving, and there would consequently" be a better market for New Zealand produce.