DAIRY FARMERS ABROAD

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1930, Page 7

DAIRY FARMERS ABROAD

’ : NEW ZEALANDER'S TOUR. ' • ■ RECEPTION IN LONDON. - - ' ■ The New Zealand dairy farmers, numbering 92, who arrived at Tilbury en June T 9 for a tour of Britain and the Continent, vvere entertained at by Messrs. Thomas Cook and. Son, Ltd., oil the following day. • • j Sir Thomas Wilford, High Commissioner for. New Zealand, who .presid-eu, proposed the toast of “Our Guests.” He reminded them that New Zealand-us stood high in the opinion of the peop.'e of Britain and invited them to expbve every avenue for expanding trade with Britain, Every New Zealander, hoi said, was anxious to trade more fully with Britain, as was shown by preferences of 20 per cent, conceded by New Zealand to the goods of the Motherland. American manufacturers had obtained contiol of the New Zealand motor-car market, but if British inariufacturcrs would make a car that'would suit New Zealand conditions, preferably a six-cylinder type, there w’as no reason- why they shon.d not -sell greater quantities in the Dominion. . r> • '■ There were some districts in Britain where the people asked for New Zea’latid produce very extensively, but others (lid not yet appreciate the value of the food-stuffs from the Dominion. Among the latter appeared to be Stallordshirc, Which, though it exported great quantities of pottery to New Zealand, still insisted on" Danish dairy produce. New Zealand had spent some 1123,000,000 cm <fevelo]>iiig hydro-electric schemes, a good deal of the* apparatus for which was made’ in Britain, yet in the Midlands he had found some towns.that did not possess electric light. American manufac; tiircrs had purchased £1,900,000 worth oi clay from Cornwall for making hightension insulators to sell to New Zealand. Why' the British manufacturers, with .a preference ,of 20 per cent., and the clay at their own doors, could not sell the insulators to New Zealand, was a puzzle to New Zealanders. -. . The Lord Mayor received thejparty at the Mansion House bn June 23. ■ ’■The party itinerary comprised a tour of Britain and the Irish Free State, returning to London on July 30. Next Friday evening the party will leave for the Channel Islands, -thence proceeding through France, Switzerland and G?rmanyTo 'Copcnhagcn. ,It will return to London on September 5.- ■ : ■ •