BUILDING UP EXPORTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19858, 4 June 1927, Page 7

BUILDING UP EXPORTS

DAIRY PRODUCE TRADE Improving Markets in Canada and United States SATISFACTORY RESULTS. [ Special “ Chronicle ” Service. ] AUCKLAND, June 3 The receipt of inquiries from America in regard to New Zealand butter led the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to the view that opportunities ia that country, with its population of about 110,000,000, were not being fully exploited. The inquiry, with comments, wa« passed on to the Department of Industries and Commerce, and tho Auckland Chamber has now received an assurance that the position is being closely watched.

Mr J. W. Collins (secretary of the Department says: “I have conferred, with the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board and have been informed that the Board has paid particular attention to both the United States and Canadian' markets and has been receiving regular reports from its agents at San Francisco, New York, Montreal and Vancouver. The Board has persistently offered butter to San Francisco, but the prices obtainable were below what could be obtained elsewhere, and no business was done. Some 60,000 boxes, however, have been shipped to New York and sold en-route, and after arrival. In addition a considerable quantity of New Zealand butter has been rc-shipped to New York from London. “Last season 35,250 boxes of butter were supplied from New Zealand to New York, and the Board, also shipped some 68,000 boxes to Vancouver this season, against 32278 boxes to that port last season. An interesting feature of tho Canadian trade has been the shipment from New Zealand of 37,450 boxes to Halifax. This season, and in addition a quantity of New Zealand butter has reshipped from London to Halifax. Very little butter was shipped to this port last year.

“Your Chamber will no doubt deduce from this statement that the United States market has been watched very closely. Had there been a prospect of further profitable business being done in New York, the Board would have followed its usual practice of shipping butter on steamers calling at New York and landing it there if necessary, or, if the market was unfavourable, taking it on to London. Our butter has been keenly competing on the New York market with the local article, and the competition has been effective in keeping the price of the local article down to what is considered by the farmers of United States an unprofitable price to them.