DAIRY PRODUCE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 76, 6 May 1914, Page 10

DAIRY PRODUCE.

THE EXPORT TRADE. Press Association. WELLINGTON, May G. Mr Wesley Spragg, .managing director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, Auckland, who returned by the Ruahine 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 'Or Alsburg, the chief officer ■■entrusted with the carrying out of the pure food regulations, and asked that the certificate of the New Zealand Go vernm'eut Dairy Department should be accepted by the Anri*ncau authorities as j)roof of freedom of New Zealand butter from adulteration or preservative. He left Washington with the conviction 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 upsets caused by the industrial trouble in New Zealand at the end of last year disrupted everything, and the market got demoralised and had never recovered. It is estimated, said Mr Spragg, as a result of the strike that, through the market becoming congested and the produce vessels reaching .England irregularly, the dairying population of New Zealand has lost at least £120,000.