BUTTER EXPORT TO CANADA

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1927, Page 7

BUTTER EXPORT TO CANADA

MARKET FOR DOMINION PRODUCE (By Wire —Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. The possibility of developing a large trade in the export of butter to Canada has been attracting, considerable attention in dairying circles in New Zealand. The first shipnient of 5000 boxes was despatched to Vancouver by the Aorangi a fortnight ago and the probable magnitude of the trade may be guaged from the fact that the insulated space has already been booked by Vancouver mail steamers for several months. Possibly of even more importance is the prospect of doing a still larger trade with the great cities on the eastern sea- ‘ board of Canada, toward which the first shipment will go by the Middlesex, at present timed to leave about the middle of October. These vessels will find it convenient to discharge at Halifax or St. John en route to Great Britain, ae the St. Lawrence is frozen during a month of the northern winter, in which trade will be conducted from Cithet of these ports. Butter can be readily railed to Montreal, which will probably remain the distributing < tie for supplying Quebec ae well as Toronto and other large cities further up the ri er. Mr. F. H. Leonard, of Leonard and Son, Ltd., who recently returned from an extensive tour of Canada and the United States, stated that there seemed every probability that eastern Canada alone could absorb 1500 tons of New Zealand butter during the coming northern winter, and there was also a possible outlet direct to the United States. In anticipation of thia he had made the necessary arrangements with responsible firms in New York, Chicago, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver, who will import on a straight-out purchasing basil, according to the market offering.