N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCE.

Waikato Times, Issue 12860, 6 May 1914, Page 5

N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCE.

♦ MR WESLfrY SPRAGG INTERVIEWED. LOSS I HlUH'Cli 111 K RECENT STRIKE. pi:i: pi'.Ess association. WELLINCTON. Wednesday. Mr \\e.s|e\ Spragyc. managing director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, who returned by the Ktiahiiic I'niin London to-day, stated in an interview with a I'ost representative that new business regarding dairy export ol a large and promising nature is opening up in America, although for the immediate present it has been slightly cheeked. Again, at Washington he interviewed l)r Alshtirg. chief officer entrusted with the carrying out of the l*uiv Food Regulations, and asked that tho certificate of the New Zealand Government Dairy Department should he accepted hy the American authorities as proof of the freedom of New Zealand butter from adulteration or preservative. He left Washington with the coiniction that the heads of the department were favorable to such an arrangement. In the en so of Now Zealand butter in England, the dairy market for the season opened up very well and at good prices, but upsets were caused by the industrial trouble in New Zealand at the end. of last year, and disrupted everything. The market got demoralised, and had never recovered. Incidentally, Mr Spragg said it is estimated that as the result of the strike, through the subsequent market becoming congested and produce vessels reaching England irregularly, the dairying population of New Zealand has lost at least £120,000.