N.Z. PRODUCTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4874, 7 September 1925, Page 1

N.Z. PRODUCTS.

MARKET IN AMERICA. VIEWS OF A VISITOR. According to Mi 1 Alexander; Marky, who is at present in the Dominion bn a visit from America, there ip no reason why New Zealand'should not export ten tithes as much butter and cheese to the United States as it does at the present time. What is required, he s.ays, is a reciprocal agreement between the States end the Dominion in respect to tariff, each conceding rates on the article that the other country requires. “If the butter and cheese went into America on this system,” Mr Marky said to a reporter, “you would increase the supply and have real New Zealand articles before the people. Now, although your butter is the best in the world, the people of the States do not know, for they have the produce blended with other of an inferior quality.” Another industry which should be exploited was the honey, of which Mr Marky considered New Zealand had the best. There was tremendous possibilities for this branch of the industry, for the fine sun, wonderful grass and soil gave the Dominion facilities not possessed by other lands.

“It is a matter • for careful and strenuous negotiations between the best brains of the respective countries,” the visitor concluded, “and can be accomplished if the right meh take it up,” Of course, this is a somewhat vulnerable story. The trouble is that the “great brains” of the Stattes fire not anxious to break down the tariff barriers which seem to be serving them so well at the present time’. Nor, probably, will the consumers of New Zealand and the workers grow particularly enthusiastic over a proposal that the duty should be removed from motor-cars in order that the farmers might get 2d or 3d a pound more for their butter. Tariffs once established are difficult things to deal with, and the mast that can be expected from the Government meanwhile is a promise that Mr Marky’s suggestions will be kept steadily in view.