DAIRY PRODUCE AT HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 287, 7 May 1914, Page 2

DAIRY PRODUCE AT HOME.

AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW. By Telegraph—Pr&ss Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Mr. Wesley Spragg, managing director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, Auckland, who returned toy the iluahine to-day, stated in an interview with a Post reporter that n.ew business re garding dairy exports of a large and promising nature is opening up in America, although lor -the immediate present it has been slightly checked again. At Washington he interviewed Or. Alfburg, the chief officer entrusted with the carrying out of the pure f ood regulations, and asked that the certificate of the New Zealand Government Dairy Department should l>e accepted by th» American authorities as proof of tins | freedom of New Zealand butter from adulteration or preservative. He left Washington with the conviction that the heads of the Department wore favorable to such an arrangement. In the case of New Zealand butter in tflie English dairy market the season opened up very well and at good prices. The 'upseta caused by the industrial trouble in New Zealand at the end of last yea:' disrupted everything. The market got demoralised, and had never recover™. Incidentally, Mr. Spragg said, it was estimated that as the result of t 1 "- strike, through the subsequent market becoming congested and produce vessels rc-acliing England irregularly, the dairying population of New Zealand had lost at least £120,000.