N.Z.. BUTTER IN CHINA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 976, 20 May 1930, Page 16

N.Z.. BUTTER IN CHINA

FEATURE OF ORIENTAL DINNER PARTIES INCREASED CONSUMPTION Chinese customs have shown a change in recent years, and at some of the bigger dinner parties the guests are treated to bread and butter and •: cheese. Thus the consumption of these products has increased enormously in China, and there is quite a good market for New Zealand butter and cheese, although, as yet, there is not a great deal of it imported. Such information was imparted by Mr. N. A. Vilonbaki, a prominent Chinese business man, who arrived by the Maunganui this morning, and who is combining business with pleasure in an extended tour abroad. “We get more Australian butter than New Zealand, but I must say that the product we get from your country, even though we receive it in tins, and after it has been in cool storage for many months, is excellent,” said Mr. Vilonbaki. “It is really unfortunate that we have no direct communication with New Zealand, for at present your country’s dairy produce is first taken to Vancouver and then transhipped in cold storage to China. It would be so much better if it could be taken direct.” Mr. Vilonbaki spent some months in Australia and commented upon the Government’s action there concerning tariffs as being “most drastic.” Australians were being taught a hard lesson, and it was quite impossible to do business there to any extent. “But I have been in a number of countries and they all seem to be suffering from similar financial difficulties. China is by no means free from them and when I get to South Africa, which J intend to visit next, I suppose I will find conditions the same there,” said the visitor.