ONE MORE OBSTACLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 4

ONE MORE OBSTACLE.

THE DIFFICULT AMERICAN ■ MARKET. (By Telegraph.—Special .Correspondent.) Auckland, December 31. Mr. W. A. Priokitt, United States Con-sul-General for New Zealand, who has just returned to Auckland" after spending a holiday in America, states that a shipment of New Zealand meat was consigned to Now York recently;, and a shipment of New Zealand butter, to San Francisco. Mr. Prickitt thinks that if the prico of meat keeps up in the States there should bo a market there for the New Zealand product. It is not probable that the tariff duty of one and a half cents per pound .in beef, lamb, and mutton will be advanced, as the present tendency is lor a lower instead of a higher tariff. It would appear that a little difficulty hns arisMi in connection, with tho eonsigning of New Zealand meat to America. Tho Consul-General in Auckland, at the request of the Minister for Agriculture (Hon. T. Mackenzie), forwarded to the United States Government • specimens of each certificate tag which is in use at the various meat export works in the Dominion. Mr. Mackenzie has since received a report from the Inspector of New Zealand meat in London stating that tho action token does not sufficiently comply with the American regulations. Theso provide that meat should be accompanied by a certificate from the official .inspector passing it, to tho offect that tho animals were subject to an ante-mortem and postmortem inspection, and found to be free from disease and suitable for food. Tho authority of this inspector must bo issued by tho American consul, and tho certificate issued by the New Zealand Government Inspector in London cannot bo accepted, as he was not resident in the country where the meat was prepared. Tho difficulty in connection with the issue of a certificate, such as tho American regulations demand, arises from tho fact that New Zealand meat shipped to that country has gone from Loudon.

The Hon. T. Jlackonzio suggests that the difficulty might ba pot orcr if the authorities in tho United States would accept a general certificate from tho inspector. of each ivorlts in Now Zealand to the effect that all moat slaughtered (.hero complies with tho requirements of the United States regulations. Mr. Mackenzie tliinlcs that thcro would bo no trouble on tho score of our svsfsm of inspection not meeting the' requirements of tho United . States,, and .a letter, covering these points has been forwarded by tho Minister for Agriculture to tho Coii. sul-Gencral, who has, in turn, forwarded it to his Government., with an enclosing letter in which lie endorses the statements of the Ministor, and says that they are worthy of full credence.' ''