NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE ABROAD

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4830, 7 May 1914, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE ABROAD

BIG BUSINESS IN AMERICA. STRIKE AFFECTED BRITISH TRADE. LOSS ESTIMATED AT £12,000. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Wellington, Last Night. Air Wesley Spragg, who has long been associated with the New Zealand Dairy Association, an Auckland concern, returned by the Ruahine from London to-day. He stated in the course of an interview witli a Post lepresentative, that the new business regarding the export of dairy produce of a large and promising nature is opening up in America, although for the immediate present it has been slightly checked. At Washington he interviewed Dr. Alsburgh, the chief officer entrusted with the carrying out of the pure food regulations, and asked that the certificate of the Neiv Zealand Government Dairy Department should be accepted by the American authorities as proof of the freedom of New Zealand butter from adulteration or preservative. He left Washington with the conviction that the heads of the department were favourable to such an arrangement in the case of New Zealand butter. In England the dairy market for the season opened up very well and at good prices. The upset was caused by the industrial trouble in New Zealand at the end of last year, it disrupted every thing, the market got demoralised and had never recovered. Incidentally Air Spragg said it is estimated as a result of the strike, through the subsequent market becoming congested and the produce of vessels reaching England irregularly, the dairying population of New Zealand has lost at least £12.000.