DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 6 May 1914, Page 7

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

PROSPECTS IN AMERICA

RESULTS OF THE STRIKE

BY TELEGRAPH —PHESB ASSOCIATION Wellington; May c. Mr Wesley Spragg, managing director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, Auckland, who returned by the Ruahine from London to-day, stated in an interview with a Post" representative that a new business regarding dairy export of a large and promising nature is opening up in America, although for the immediate present it j has been slightly checked again. At Washington he interviewed Dr Alsburg, Chief Officer entrusted with the carrying out of the Pure Food. Regulations, and asked that a certificate of the New I Zealand Government Dairy Department should be accepted by the American authorities as proof of the freedom of New Zealand butter from adulteration or preservatives. He left Washington with the conviction that the heads of the Department were favorable to such arrangements. In the case of New Zealand butter in England, the dairy market for the season opened up very well and. at good prices. But the \ipsets caused by the industrial trouble in New Zealand at the end of last year had disrupted everything" so that the market got demoralised, and has never; recovered. Incidentally, Mr Spragg said: "It is estimated (as a result of the strike, through the subsequent market becoming congested, and produce vessels reaching England irregularly) that the dairying population of New Zealand has lost at least £120,000."