NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

The Liverpool Campaign PLEA FOR DIRECT SHIPMENTS The campaign.in favour of New Zen JX““. ™ **• ’‘ L . ,V ZSZ£ wards the end of November state., London correspondent of laud Herald. All the local nevvspapci, sad something to say regarding the .Do minion produce and the show uira 0 bv the dairy Board. B «: m istic ‘“Despite the somewhat pessimistic views of the Liverpool Gha “^, e L e ° t Commerce on the question shipment between this port and - Zealand,” says the Liverpool Echo, the Government, of, that eountiy _ not given us up for lost, and on - day next the Liverpool public will have of seeing and sampling New Zealand butter and cheese at an exhibition arranged by tlm New Z land Dairy Produce Board. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Alder man H. M. Miller, opened tike exhibition At present only one provision shop in six sells New Zealand produce, and the Lord Mayor’s comment was that this state of affairs was neither creditable nor patriotic. "When Sir James Parr, the New Zealand High Commissioner, was here recently, ho said Liverpool was splendidly situated for supplying 20,000,000 people in the Midlands, but I don t think the overseas people quite appreciate the advantages that would be gained by making more use of Liverpool as a distributing centre. Wo have the accomodation. Nor do I think the citizens realise ijjhat they , are doing when they give foreign goods preference over the goods of our own kith and kin. If they would only insist oh procuring’ Dominion goods it would not be long before a direct shipping line between here and New Zealand would prove a paying proposition.” Mr L. A. P. Warner, .general manager of the Dock Board, also referred to the question of direct shipments. .He said that tho board had been trying hard for the last six years to get them and it was not true to say that the scheme had failed. (It was Mr E. U. Edwards, chairman •of the Transport Committee of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, who stated that there was little hope of direct shipments to . Liverpool from Australia and New Zealand.) Tho Liverpool Echo says: "The exhibition is really a follow-up upon the Liverpool visit of Sir James Parr, the New Zealand High Commissioner, when he appealed for more support for the products of his country, and Liverpool consumoi'3 are now to be given an opportunity of testing the quality of the butter and cheese products, and also to view by means of illustration and literature, the up-to-date and hygienic methods of manufacture now operating at the New Zealand factories. Direct shipments of dairy produce have been arriving at Liverpool from Wellington, for some time, and the innovation has the enthusiastic support of tho local produce trade and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Boad. "Unfortunately, tho Liverpool housewife has not fallen into lino so readily, and, with the, object of educating her to the high quality, of the New Zealand product, twopenny samples of butter will be on sale at the exhibition, and arrangements have been made with all the local retail grocers to stock quantities of the produce, in order to

meet the increased demand which it is felt v/ill be the certain outcome of the miniature ‘Wembley’ 'in Church Street.”