CHEESE AND BUTTER EXPORT.
In the discussion after Mr Dow’s lecture on New Zealand farming delivered at Christchurch, Mr Bowron, a new arrival, said he had listened with great pleasure to the lecture. He claimed to have an intimate knowledge of the cheese and butter trade, from a long experience in London. He had noticed that a shipment of cheese was about to be made by the farmers in the neighborhood of Akaroa, but ho felt convinced that, conducted as the experiment was, upon no system, it would prove a failure. He had scon the American cheeses, when first sent to England, sold there for 15s a ton to manure the hop gardens of Kent, and tons of butter had been sold for cart grease at 2d a pound. This was because the cheese and butter had been sent to market by individuals who knew nothing of the business. The Americans had seen how the mistake was to be rectified, and had, by adopting the system of factories suggested by Mr Dow, succeeded in establishing a large and flourishing trade.
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Patea Mail, 21 April 1881, Page 4
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