BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 8

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

PROSPECTS OF SEASON.

TOOLEY STREET MERCHANT.

PREDICTS GREAT FUTURE.

CANADIAN AND EASTERN

r>IARKET&.

It will be gratifying to New Zealand producers to hear from a Tooley Street dairy produce importer that our butter is increasing in popularity in England on account of its quality.

Mr. A. W. Heyes, of the London firm of Henry A. Lane and Company, Ltd., daily produce importers, who recently spent four months in New Zealand on a business investigation, and then went across to tho Commonwealth, expressed this opinion to-day. He is on board the Aorangi, on his way back to tho Old Country.

"I think you have a great future for your dairy produce," he eaid. "Your butter is well liked and its popularity is growing, especially in the North of England. That is, around Liverpool and in the Midlands. I believe Liverpool will develop into a big distributing centre.

"As far as cheese is concerned," he continued, "there has been a lot of criticism in respect to quality, but that should have referred only to a portion of your exports. It is quite apparent that real consideration is being given to the matter in New Zealand, and I have no doubt that any defects will be rectified in due course."

Asked as to the future from a price point of view, Mr. Heyes said he had been away from London for eix months, and he was not in a position to forecast prices, but it appeared that the prospects for the coining season were hopeful. "No doubt prices will work out quite satisfactorily," he added with a smile.

Mr. Hayes is not at all sanguine as to a satisfactory market for New Zealand dairy produco on the Continent of Europe. "I do not think there is much scope- there," he said. "They are great producers, and the tariffs are prohibitive.

"Canada and the East, however," he said, "arc in different case, and the markets are apparently developing freely to your advantage in the future."

While declining to make any comment ae to the early operations of the New Zealand Dairy Produco Board, Mr. Heyes said: "The board in London in its reorganised form is doing useful work in regard to such mattere as supervision of handling, advertising and so forth. Beyond that I have nothing to say."