Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 2 May 1912, Page 36

Interprovincial

The fame of New Zealand butter is spreading to distant places. Lately Taranaki factories have been receiving numerous inquiries from firms in America and South Africa for supplies of butter, but so great is the demand that dairy companies cannot supply half the quantity inquired for.

The Minister of Railways (says a telegram from Auckland) informed a reporter that it had been decided to erect two new buildings as additions to the Newmarket Railway Workshops to cope with the increased work in hand. Mr. Myers said he intended to make inspections of . the other workshops so that he might become conversant with the general work that is being carried on in the railway centres. Cabled information has just been received by the Prime Minister (the Hon. T. Mackenzie) that the shipment of apples by the Kaipara from New Zealand, consisting of 5000 cases, has arrived in London in excellent condition. This will be good news for the exporters and growers of fruit in New Zealand. This is the third shipment . which the Government has ‘ fathered,’ so to speak. In the past a bonus of Id per lb was offered, but in this instance a new plan was tried. The Government offered the officers of the . Kaipara a bonus of £SO if the fruit arrived in good condition. The only comment that is necessary is that it did. In referring to the matter the Prime Minister said that at the present time there were orders in New Zealand for 20,000 cases of apples for the Argentine, and the prospective buyers were prepared to pay higher rates than those ruling for Tasmanian fruit. If this order could be completed it would mean a great deal for the growing fruit trade of New Zealand, because no cold storage was required on the trip to the Argentine. Mr, Mackenzie states that he is carefully watching the South American fruit market, and that he is in touch with some men there who can place our .fruit on good terms with consumers. As a result of these inquiries and orders a new development in the Government fruit farms is foreshadowed. ,