TRADE WITH AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2006, 13 March 1914, Page 8

TRADE WITH AMERICA.

MR. CLIFTON'S MISSION.. THE REOEN? BUTTER INCIDENT, {From a Correspondent.) San Franclsooj February iG. Mr. E. Clitton, tho New Zealand Commissioner to the fisposi* tioH and Trad© Commissioner to tho United States and.Canada for the Gov- i ernraeut of Now jfealandj has been bus- J ' i!y engaged sifl.eo Jiis arrival in San I Francisco. i He wns enthusiastically welcomed by tho direstors of tho Imposition, and uftor au exekangg of compliments and other preliminaries ho was escorted to tho foreign section of the s-pndous Expo-: sitioß grounds. He carefully surveyed, the situation, and tentatively setested a site for New Zealand's participation in tli© 1915 World's Fair at San Frailcisco. Preliminary plans are. b&tiig ■prepared for the erection of a. fair building, which will liavo several architectural features, and altogether the Domifiroii exhibits will bo housed in a, building of impo'sing grandeur and l worthy of the importance of tlio Government of New Zoa,and. Comtnissiaiicr Clifton is cheered l>v the brightest of optimista, and is coa-γ-mced New Zealand will benefit very materially, not only by participation in San Francisco's Exhibition, but also by having an official oft the- spot, evef ready to advaftco tlio trade, interests of the island Government. In tlis eourse of an interview, Mr. Clifton said: "New Zealand has cootmissioned me to act as their representative in. the Pansmrfacitlc Exposition, and also as Trade Commissioner, or ."e----presentative to Canada and tho TJnited States. Of courso that really Tesofr«t» itsetf into attention to thosD activities wlttel? arty priiaeipally in the western eities of each c&untry. Ife is there that New Zealand looks for tho reception of its principal pretests, which are to he plated on tho Canadian ami American markets* Those products are refrigerated meats,' dairy produce, and fruit iii season, "Ths situation of New Zealand, airtt Sati Pfancisoo'aro worthy of eompnfison. Dcftnitely stated, New goaland is lccaied just as far south' <rf tho Equator .is Ban jFrancisco is fiortii of tho Eqtta« torial line, and as New Zealand is jsftt across latitude, it embraces lastly large variation of diniate. Ono thousattd two hundred miles stretah. froni nortii to sontli, whicli resembles the _d\& feroiice eKisting between San Francisco and a little north of Vaneaiiver, British Columbia. New Zealand expects to be represented at the Pajramn Bxpositkn so far as is coinnatibie with' h«r com. mnriity of -one million peoplo. New " Zealand's cnncurrertcd at tut Esposition was dscidc.4 upon several l'MHths -ago. The Efeht Hon. the ■prime Minister (Mr. Masse?) rrtet .tho Commissioners frwtt the Panrvma Pivclhc Bxpdsitiort when' they visited New Zealand uitder Commissioner General Afea Adams, cx'Gevonior of Celefado, who placed tto proposals vety clearly hefote the Prime Minister. . S&v Massey advised tho American Commission thai tho Kew Zc-akud Cabflwt ha;d already decided to partiripato, ai«l trusted to send a display worthy of New Zealand. He w&tifted at tho same time ttai representations -woitld W wade chiefly Mi the primary products of tho land, sudi as fidods. textiles raaterial, iircttidins wool, productions on dairy and <ui frUif farms.' "Fruit should bo particularly wclcoMo in Californja and the unitqcl States fts a wljole, as tji.o fnji't sea Sens of America awl New Zealand aw Op: posife. \Vo, in Nets- Zealand, alrewtj rceeivo large quantities , 'el Californkil fruit cowing in there when Now Ze* land is short. AVe toast that .the- development of fruit farms will rosull in soMtig JargO; shipfiisnts' in rcturr to Califoraia at' a corj-espoiiding S'oas&n. Tho iherea-seel vbjwmo of tradi i has hecii especially noticeable cErirJj-ig ■ the last few months, because it is it i that period that tho trado has iako-n or • eacli QroiriTig -pfonftrtions in meniti especially New Zealand jamhs—and but . tfl-r a; 3 speciafties. Both of these, an i in high QTrpTCßiatiott in tho American marlcet, bat in a nmoli greater .degree I on tho market in Jojwlon, In Lon; : don our butter takes it place on equa. i terms with that of Bcnnuirk. fe , . 2calanders claim that New. Zeala.ftt i lambs Mo,soU tttei-o is prime Etigfeh j fosing it« ifje-ntity there, aiid assitfiiljit , ing tliat of Great.Britain) and rcpr& [ selited to the British coflstimer witi , prices of his primest- home product, j "Another important .product is thai of New Zealand hemp (phorium tciiax). I a w fibre product capah-lo oi supplying 'i highly a.pproeiative harvester twi.no* Ii is already in great use in America, uj ', to tlio jrfeseist finding its wa}* int<> tlii ■ rnamuacttmßg distiifcte, via tlio East ' crn seaboard. New Zealand ■in _rc * tarn receives from America large ina " pe-rts of inacliinery of e.vcty eoßcejvaHi 1 description from the sewiag machino t< 5 tho heaviest wood-working apparatus I oils, manufactured and partly-mawufac tured carriage works> automobiles, aiit f sewing machines ifl Jcgipn. Tin irade,, however, is ono of those to hi a]ways cornaended , as not ail inter chaego of cash for 'doenments,' htf; ( one of mutital oxchanga. Tin products of Noiv Zioaland i>ro thosi j in , demand in/ America, and si " t with New Zealand the jnanu j factured goofls; of Americ; , aro in apprccjatioii aiid an ~' imported in iiicroasiiig vokwie. tt ii ;, fuJJy reoßgnised tliafe tho quajity am J pijrity of New Zealand products is es so-ntial. This is mentioned as spccinlli \ applyiiig to butter. In the tJjiitec p States, provisions of tho Pii.ro l f «odi [ Act aro fortunately rigorously adminis j t«cd, This is appfectated in Now £ea , knd, for there thero is no necessity fo; tho addition of deleterious preservatives To the.actti.nl exporter it is unfortunate that upwards of SCO cubes <A bntte: > wero condemned recently at Seattle. 1 . was afficially stated that tho boric ack <, carried the indication of a trace roprc r seiited by .002 per cent., or briofiy<>-hun 1 dredth ef ono per oeirt.! This is 1 i trace so small indeed to show the uttpi ; futility of tho raafitif&etui-or in permit > ting even the presbneo of so small j ; quantity, and, furthermore, it is eVi . denfly unnecessary in manufacture,, I: i tfoiij hriiigs home to the New Zeaiant i butforniakcr the loss that is snstai.net 1 through carelessness—"heeauso it can b< ■ hat carelessness when t}iis > is permittct j — tllere will result to this ft djstlno"

benefit to the dairy industry. ''Thorp, arc in Now Zealand firms who can'guarantee that the butter exported is absolutely aud definitely free from Mjo ptcsMjco of any preservative whatTho New Zeakwlor will qviickty appreciate this, and the appreciation of his product will ta&mo higher and higher in the appreciation of the American cMisunier. Thorp is Undoubtedly a ROorl iviftrftet on frko Pacine Coast for New Zealand butter. Glie of tho greatest compliments ever paid to a ■couiitry was that made in California a few days' ago, when at n meeting of those interested in dairy fanning it was tkcTaiv <?d by t}io president that Amcfjc&n fanners need not fear the- importation of New Zeakntl butter if tlio CalijWjiinn faonor Would emulate tho quality of the Now jleakiHt commodity, anil Wist in place of being satisfied to. f>ro(Tvico prjmo bntt-cr Jet o.\liil.ytion j)«rjiosos, tjio Californlatt shoulu mnnuf.i.otMro it its t-bo New Zeahtnctw did. for tho purposes of ovtiry^ay.cowsuiuptioiu ''New Eealaitders are trymg to nwko a grade of butter idfljitical with that of 'Denmark as the standard of what is'oo- ', copted as the west desiraWo. The colour and iwcontasm of salt a«s Mmiti-' iial with that of Dmimarf?. Iti Anier-' ica tho pitchers state that a .soniowliat deeper colour and a liigbor percentage j ef salt wil , tseta; , msefc the regutre-j

mtiiits of tlie American market, This amounts to a recommendation to the Now Zealand nianufactUttM'S who itro liroposiug to export- to America.

"It is more a. iiuostion of fashion and' taste and soiuowhat unf-ortiMiato froai tluj N(.'w Zfalaud standards, as the presence of a higher percentage <if salt to some extent affects .the gride. Butter graders would iiot award the highest' grade position to heavily-salted tetter. "The dairy industry of New Zealand has been nurtured asid safeguarded by tho excellent, system of grading that lias been established by tiro-State, Every New jfealnndw, and every merchant — TO mutter in what ' with butter and cheese, awards to this division of tto Department of New Zealand tho highest appreciation and acceptjs its grades in 4iß eoirinverciiil tfa«saetiaiiis as the basis of valtto. There is «o efu.cstiott beyond this. An o.pcrator in Great Britain cahtes for what may ■ bo IQfJQ cases of butter of a ' standard. Before lift receives it he may hayo arranged for tho oitsposal of tho [ wltolo consignment t-o SQ other, houses. 1 It is received by them and p4-i4 for 1 simply on tlio grade awarded to it by ' tlio Now Zcaiaiul dairy pxodueo grafter, who h a State official." . 1 Comnrissbner Clifton stated that tiio presence of boric acid in New Zealand " butter at Sc.jttlo had been exaggerated " grossly, and only 300 cases* aiid net " 1500 as reported, had hec-n condemned, j His investigations had showed tjtat in tho State of Oregon dealers irad bluntly refused to liaiidlo any imported latter, ftnd Do reasons iiad been offered for this ! boycott. Ctiriortsl-y enough, «no of tlm> ', lots of out-tcr craifenned at Seattfe ' came f»ni niauttfecturets who 'stood teday the first hi successful K-bm-petition for o. challenge ciyp liy the asso- ' ciatiou of Dairy Produce Mcrchamts of Lendon, who required the trophy, to he twm' three times in suceessien. That I factory had altcady gained two of these a eoatpotitidisj and was in goad running - for the third aftmtal event. Tlijs, Was s the ton -wlioso butter had been cona deraned at Seattle] "There are firms in * Sew Zealand added Commis-' j sioii-ef CKfteu, "expeettaf! to operate in e 'America, Who, first of aS, advise thojr ij individual milk sffippfers tlvAfc every sup- , i_ piy of milk will he tested % their diem-' n ist for the presence of preservatives, and that any analysis revealing such ij traces will cause tho milk affected to he u returned to tho farmer. > Check analysis jl is taken of every eJnirmu-g also, but in i r spite of every safeguard a trace may ~ slip in." ,t ' *-■'■■:.. - - ■' ■■■.:■- "