NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18537, 18 January 1932, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

MARKET IN CANADA. > OPINION OF EXPORTERS. \ Although, under the trade treaty that -has just been -concluded with Canada on behalf of New Zealand by the Minister of Customs (the Hon. \V. Downie Stewart), New Zealand butter Is expected to he able to compete with Australian on the Canadian market without the handicap of 14s a cwt duty against it, dairy produce exporters (says the Christchurch Sun) do not hold out much hope of a big market in .-Canada, for the tendency, they claim, is for Canada nowadays to become an exporting country. 'Before the extra duty on New Zealand butter caused trade relations between New Zealand and Canada -to be broken off, there was quite a good market ’ for New Zealand buttS'r in the sleter Dominion, but after that the Canadian milk and cream products ex-port-trade to the United States was ■stopped by a prohibitive duty Imposed by the United States Government. -Canada used to .send a huge quantity of cream from her, border States to America for the manufacture of Ice cream, etc., but the milk and •creafn used for these purposes now have to be absorbed on the Canadian market. This means that more Canadian butter is being used, and Canada is starting to export to the United -Kingdom. Little Chanoe of Big Market. “Under those conditions," ■ said a dairy produce man, “there seems to be little chance of a big ■ market in Canada for New Zealand butter. The United States have practically stopped our market. "Canada may, of course, be short of butler during her winter months, and in that case she may possibly draw supplies from New Zealand and. Australia. Last season, however, very liLlle Australian- butter was -shipped to Canada during the winter months. We ourselves, had a fair market, before the United States put that prohibitive duty on Canadian dairy produce exports. . "I do not think that under present conditions there is any chance of developing a butter,market in Canada, though, of course, thcr.e may be a change in Canadian policy. There may be a catch-market in. the Canadian mid-winter; but that Is unreliable. InK the- meantime the market is gone." Tho:“Goodwlll n Ship. He recalled the fact that the Australian “goodwill 'Ship" to Canada -took , across a considerable quantity of Australian butter, but that there was no sale for the produce in Canada, with Hie result that it had to he sent across the Atlantic to London, much to Tooley Street’s amusement.

“Very little butter is sent from the South island to Canada,” said another dairy export man. “The trade lias always been spasmodic, because of the stiipping difficulties. The North 'lsland, with the direct service by means of the Niagara and the Aorangi, can more easily supply the butter, and most of the business lias been done in the North Island."