The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY APRIL 2O, 1914. THE PACIFIC COAST TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 99, 20 April 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY APRIL 20, 1914. THE PACIFIC COAST TRADE.

Discussing tho alleged attempt to block New Zealand butter on the Pacific Coast tho Christchurch Press rightly remarks that in tho case of a now market like that now being opened on the Pacific Coast, it is especially important that we should send our best. We have not only to think of the Pacific Coast, but there is reason to hope that when the Panama Canal is opened, the best Now Zealand butter will find a market even in the Eastern States. It is not too ranch to say that New Zealand fortunes as regards these markets will be to a largo extent either made or marred according to whether onr produce obtains a good or a bad name at the outset. As tho Press has frequently pointed out, it is most fortunate that those controlling outfrozen meat trade recognised this principle, and acted upon it from the , first, and tho hope is expressed that the producers and shippers of dairy produce and fruit will he similarly far-sighted and sensible. “The matter is of so much importance.” our contemporary concludes, “that we venture to think it would ho well if in addition to Covernraent officers being sent to the two chief Pacific ports the leading shippers of dairy produce wore themselves to combine to keep a capable representative to look after their interests on the Pacific Coast. IF it is true as suggested that there is a determined attempt being made by a ‘ring’ to block Now Zealand butter, it is all the more important that active steps should he taken on the spot to cope with these machinations.”