THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 13, 6 May 1914, Page 6

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND. £Fu Pekss Association.] Wellington, May 6. :Mr Wesley Spragg, managing director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, Auckland, who returned by the Buahine from London to-day, stated in an interview with a “Post” representative that new business regarding dairy export of a large and promising nature is opening up in America, although for the immediate present it has been slightly checked again. At Washington he interviewed ;Dr. Alsburg, the chief officer entrusted with the .carrying out of the pure food regulations, and asked that the certificate of the New Zealand Government Dairy Department should la? accepted by the American authorities as proof of the freedom of New Zealand butter from adulteration or preservatives. He left Wash.iugton with the conviction that the . heads of the Department were favorable 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 upsets caused by the industrial trouble in New Zealand at the end of last year disrupted everything. The market got demoralised and has never recovered, i> Incidentally, Mr Spragg said: “It is estimated that as a result of that fetrike, through the subsequent mar- ’ kets becoming congested and produce vessels reaching England irregularly, the dairying population of New Zealand has lost at least £120,000.