AUSTRALIAN JAMS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 201, 18 August 1921, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN JAMS.

EFFECT OF THE EMBARGO. Now that an embargo has oeen placed on Australian jams, prohibiting their importation, New Zealand manufacturers will have this country’s trade almost entirely to themselves. There is a very fair demand, for Colonial, manufactures, but, according to the statement of a Palmerston North grocer to a “Manawatu Daily Tinies” reporter, the embargo will have a tendency to stiffen the prices. The prices already ruling are viewed with dissatisfaction by the consumers, but the blame did not rest with the retailers, who made, in some instances, less than 10 per cent. However, it was essential, that such a commodity should be stocked. Quite recently the New Zealand manufacturers anticipated that big supplies of Australian jams would be imported at prices below those ' ruling for Dominion makes. New Zealand makers made sales, even in Palmerston North, of Colonial jams with a falling clause. That was to say that should a drop take place before the grocers sold the goods, they would credit them, to the extent of the reduction, on remaining stocks. However, now that the Australian embargo was operative, it was hardly likely that a position necessitating that clause being given effect to would be reachedBriefly, the New Zealand makers were now in a position to dictate their own prices.