NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 June 1917, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE.

The opportunity afforded by the war to develop the demand for New Zealand butter is emphasised in an article in the official organ of the British Institute of Certificated Grocers. Owing to the interference with supplies from Denmark and Holland, there has been a sudden demand in the North of England for Australian and New Zealand dairy produce, and the journal suggests Tfiat by a little energy and enterprise this demand may be made permanent. It continues: Foreign producers have, through their various commissioners, made it their business to find out exactly what is required by the different markets. Take a leaf out of the foreigners' book, and push the trade in a thoroughly intelligent, persistent and business-like way. The colonies. with possibly ose exception, South

Australia, have lamentably failed in this matter. At grocers' exhibitions all over the Kingdom,, in the past, there have been excellent displays of colonial produce from South Australia, and of produce from foreign countries. We have looked in .vain for the stacks of fresh, sweet butter, and other products of farm and field, from New Zealand, which should have been there, which could have been there at ridiculously small expense, had New Zealand only been alive to the situation. This is but a sample of the opportunities which have been missed. Meanwhile the "man in the street," and more certainly the woman in the shop, have been left in ignorance of the produce of their brethren beyond the seas, and small wonder is it therefore that it had not been liked, sought after, and demanded.