KNOCKING AT GERMANY’S DOOR

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8330, 16 January 1913, Page 2

KNOCKING AT GERMANY’S DOOR

TKLAI. BTJTTEK SHIPMENT. An experiment of interest to the Dominion ia being made by Messrs Collett and Co., of New Plymouth. For some time men interested in "boosting" the dairying business have had their eyes on Germany, but up to the present the New Zealand butter box has been frowned on by the dealers in that country, who prefer to buy their butter in keiis (Banish, casks). In the case of importations from Denmark and Siberia this method of packing is practicable, because the comparatively 6hort distance oyer which the produce has to tia transhipped dees not entail the handicap of crippling freight charges. To Bend butter from New Zealand in casks is, howover, quite a different matter, for the space taken up by casks in comparison with that occupied by square boxes represents probably a 30 per cent, increase in freight. The New Plymouth firm, feeling assured that once New Zealand butter gets in the Germans will cease to scruple as to the method of its conveyance, determined to send over a couple of consignments suited to the German taste. To that end they imported a hundred keilfl, tifty of which, filled with prime butter, were consigned back to Germany by the Euapehu on her present trip, leaving the remaining fifty to be forwarded early in the New Year. The rosiilt of the experiment will bo awaited with interest.