OUR DAIRY PRODUCE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11736, 25 January 1924, Page 8

OUR DAIRY PRODUCE

AN AMERICAN MARKET BIG OPPORTUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES. QUALITY NECESSARY. B.v Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian- and N-Z. Cable Association (Received January 24, 3.25 p.m.) VANCOUVER, January 23. The Australian Press Association learns that the New York market is ready to abeoTd 300 cases of Australian and New Zealand butter at the present time, and that it will pay as high as la 8d f.o.b. A produce dealer from Sydney recently cabled his New Zealand representatives offering Is 6d per lb for 100,000 cases for the New York market, but he was unable to secure these. A correspondent also has been informed that an offer has been made to purchase 40,000 boxes of Australasian butter at Is 9d c.i.f. OFF-SEASON BEGINS. The Australian Commissioners in the’ New York office understand that this offer has been transmitted to Australia. The next ninety days represents the American off-season, when the Canadian, Scandinavian, Dutch, and Siberian butter imports cease, and Australasian butter will find the readiest market. Dairy produce experts, moreover, maintain that Australasia could successfully create a profitable year-round butter market in America. It is stated that, despite 8 cents duty and a long haul, Australasian butter, 92 to 93 score, or better, would find an unlimited demand here, successfully competing against European and Canadian butters throughout the year. REGULAR SAILINGS NEEDED. A representative of the Duane Produce Company, which last year imported 120,000 cases of New Zealand butter, informed the correspondent that the lack of a direct line, with frequent, regular sailings by refrigerated ships between Australasia and the United States works against the establishment of an Australasian butter market here. He declared that much Australasian butter was imported via London. He advised Australasia to concentrate upon the American market, which would be found highly profitable. Mr William Taber, the foremost American authority upon dairy products, stressed the importance of Australasia shipping to America a constant supply of highest score butters, thus establishing a reputation, and at the 6ame time securing the greatest revenue, for no country in the world was ready to pay such high prices as America.