NEW ZEALAND LAMB

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1938, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND LAMB

’ TRIAL SHIPMENTS TO CANADA EXPERIMENT SUCCESSFUL (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Trial shipments of New Zealand lamb to Toronto and other markets in Eastern Canada are reported to have been very successful. In an interview last evening the Minister of Marketing, the Hon W. Nash, said the first shipment had all been sold at prices at least equivalent to those ruling on the London market. The second shipment of lamb by the Huntingdon had also sold freely at good prices. These satisfactory sales, said Mr Nash, were due to the tariff adjustments secured as a result of the negotiations carried out when he was in Ottawa, and subsequently confirmed in a trade agreement with the Canadian Government. The duty on New Zealand lamb was reduced from three cents to half a cent a pound. It was another indication of the Government’s activity in searching for alternative markets for New Zealand’s primary products. Reference to the same subject was also made by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon D. G. Sullivan. Commenting on the news which had been cabled by the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Canada, Mr Sullivan said that Eastern Canada was eager to accept New Zealand lamb. He was pleased to state that the trial shipments were meeting with ready sales. “The initial shipment of 5900 carcases has been cleared at satisfactory prices,” added the Minister, “and the second shipment of 3000 carcases is going quickly into consumption in Toronto, stocks being almost exhausted in that centre.”