EASTERN MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 July 1935, Page 8

EASTERN MARKETS

NEW ZEALAND’S CHANCE “SHOULD NOT BE MISSED.- | Per Press Association. | AUCKLAND, June 29. For the first lime in her history the Mariposa, when she sailed from Auckland today, took more refrigerated cargo than general cargo. Much of it is for the East and is to be transhipped at Honolulu. The refrigerated portion includes butter for Singapore, Japan, Honolulu, ami San Francisco, cheese for Silting liai, Hongkong, and San Francisco, meat for Singapore, Honolulu, and San Francisco, and chilled beef for llono lulu. The general cargo includes light ale for Pago Pago. A representative of the Matson Line said to-day that the exports from Auckland to the Pacific Coast during the past six months had been 45 per cent greater than in the same period last year. This he attributed to the disastrous drought in the Middle West of the United States following on the, reduction of herds under the N.R.A. scheme. The combined effect was a shortage of butter, cheese, tallow and meat. During the past two years America had bought large quantities of tallow from New Zealand at high prices. “New Zealand has now a good chance of getting into the Eastern trade,” he said, ”as America is temporarily unable to supply fully the markets which have been hers for years, while New' Zealand can. It is an opportunity which should not be missed of placing New Zealand produce on Eastern markets.”