South America as a Market for New Zealand Produce.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 199, 16 April 1887, Page 2

South America as a Market for New Zealand Produce.

Under the above heading the following recently appeared in the Auckland Star: — To the setters of the Bay of Plenty, particularly of the Tauranga district, belongs the credit of having by their energy opened up a new market for New Zealand butter and cheese. About the time when the Tarawera eruption was casting a cloud of foreboding surmises over the future of the settlements of the Bay, the Te Puke Settlers had \letei mined to test llio Janeiro as a market, and the result having been satisfactory, a larger consign ment goes shortly to th<*t place, and arrangements are being made by which a regular supply can be kept up. Early during last June Mr Macandlish called the attention of the Te Puke settlers to the export trade in butter done by Denmark, Italy and other places, and at a meeting of the principal farmers showed a tin of Danish butter which he had kept for some tilmoet incredible time with the result that it was perfectly good when opened in their presence. " Why could not Te Puke follow suit?" The idea set working in the .settlers' minds, the following came about : — A Mr Alexander Harvey', lately from England, as are most of the settlers, and who was an extensive tin plate worker at ' Home, offered to copy the Danish tin, and expressed his belief that Te Puke'butter would keep well-tinned; as lie hail tinned some of his own, and f6und that he could sell it in the' district with good profit; when butter was scarce. Mr : tid?v4y, however, •saw 1 a difficulty for farmers to fasten up theft* butter f 'after the Danish model; as solder-watf-re-quired j so setting to work, he inVented'a clever air-tight lid, which will prevent even kerosene leaking out of anLinver-ted banfitted with the same. A little extra precaution takeWby using gome rejsin'di^wa*^ round theijolnt maUeisa thoroughly air'tig^ife tenv&lope/ ' ln « w*iich> buttet* * 'will'keep" *ood t for 1 - a longp'Sribti dHime^'A domiaittee, cotfAitfttaff bfi'M&slte! JOn^tKtttt' Brtfwm (funf^ holder),! Mtfftffcßli&hit&vit engihe'erOj'tfdhrf Snodgrd^(^gBntot'BankiX)f'4New'i2ealan'd^f > David liu'ndoh'a'rtd Benrieti'(-f tfrnferßftan&Mti IHkrVey, was next formed, and about 2701bs of 'btffctei!".'i«jriflT©tl?akb iaii<fc>7olbB ( irotm I waHOdott& nip'in»bne^ouM Tmsf arid sen jtdtftiw Vhf»<butt^ soldtf^i- isMflj I

iffWi ofewftfedf'Wife rancid. Now the expenses, which, as is generally the case on a ' small consignment, especially that of a new line of goods, were very heavy, amounting to Is per pound. The cost of tinning, Id I per tin, or per pound, had also to come off ; leaving 10a per pound for the farmer to receive for his butter. The reason for a rancid tin being found amongst the consignment was important and wor^th' inquiring into, as it lowered thej>rice pbtainedjby the \ whole consignment'. 7 It was found t^atrtsh^ was caused through the acid present in the dust and air during the time the. tins were fastened up, which was immediately after the eruptiori, I .when all the place was, three inches deep in volcanic sand and mud. The Exporting Committee, a>e informed by their agent in Rio that that place can take a large quantity of butter at the price already obtained, but that it would be be*t not to, rush .the market. The population of Rio isabbut 700,000, with a largely- peopled surrounding country. Consignments of lib, 21b, "and "71b tins will beat suit" the marker, in proportions of half ,of 21b tjnSj and a quarter eacH of lib and 71b tins. The butter should be well salted at the rate of foz. to the pound, and only first-class butterj minus all milk, should be sent. A small consignment of 151 band 181b cheeses from the Te Puke Cheese Factory fetched at Rio Is 3d, netting 7|d to the factory, lately. These were loaf size, 9x7 inches. The same factory is sending 3 tons of £61b.s cheese to London, which we have seen being placed in their tins, in which they are safely packed in sawdust, which is a grand nonconductor of heat, nt Mr Harvey's tin works, Durham street. So great is Mr Harvey's belief in the future growth of our canning industries that he has imported a large quantity of valuable machinery, which will be in full operation in about a month's time.