BUTTER AND CHEESE MARKET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 8

BUTTER AND CHEESE MARKET.

MESSRS. LONSDALE'S ARRANGEMENTS. ■ Messrs. J. and ,1.-Lonsdale and Co,, Ltd.', tho well-known dairy produce agents, of England, the. only exclusively butter and cheese specialists represented in the colonics, announce that -Mr.. S. Turner has been. appointed a.s their supervisor for Australasia.' Messrs. A. S. Patcrs'on and Co. are- tho agents for New Zealand, with the exception, of the Taranaki and Wellington districts, where tliey have withdrawn to allow the/company to establish, direct communication to the .factories. ' In, these days of progressparticularly in the Taranaki and Wellington district—the factory insists upon dealing direct with the English firms themselves.

Tho company's up-to-date arrangement'.is in. accordance with tho National' Dairy Association meeting at . Palmerston; when it was expressed'very strongly that the factories did, not want any agents calling upon them.. '

V Mr. T. L. Berry, of the firm's staff, who will be in touch with factories all the year round, will bo accompanied by Mr. Turner, at tho special occasions of the disposal meetings. Messrs. J. and J. Lonsdale's cap-ital is £500,000, and they are tho oldest butter and cheese, specialists in Great Britain, having been established in 1837. Mr. John: Lonsdale, one of the leading members of . the Britisli House of Commons, and also a director/of tho great Lancashire'and Yorkshire Bank, is oho of the principal directors. It is interesting to know that. Mr. John Lonsdale is tho only M.P. which the. butter and cheese trado has ever: been able to claim. Three years ago lie was instrumental in introducing a Bill to tho British House of Commons to put down tho mixing.-and blending of butter with foreign ingredients. The r'esult waß tlio purification of that part of'the trade. , • -.v V Messrs. Lonsdale liavo added considerably, to their power of.distribution to the smallest retailors in. Rreat Britain, and from this year onward will'bo,dealing direct with . more, small rctaileri'; than "any other firm- in G.reat Britaini. They propose to give "proof of this at tho factory meetings. ! Factory secretaries are asked to kindly forward to Mr,.Turner.the date of their d.is-. posal meetings as soon as arranged, and post to ,Mr. S.; Turner,: Commercial Hotel, wera, Tarauakf.' .' ■ . v 2079