DAIRY PRODUCE IN ENGLAND. A SPLENDID MARKET. (BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Sept. 7.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 298, 12 September 1888, Page 4

DAIRY PRODUCE IN ENGLAND. A SPLENDID MARKET. (BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Sept. 7.

C. Meadows, representative of a London firm, arrived here by the Tainui ,for the purpose of making arrangements to procure New Zealand dairy produce. H e speaks highly of the capabilities of the colony, but says we are throwing iiway our opportunities by not using them to achantage. Butter and cheese would sell well it proper attention were paid to uniformity in making and packing. There is an unlimi'cd tnaiket for the latter of good quality, and one of the largest buyers in the market says we do not know what a chance we arc losing of pulling New Zealand on the same footing a» Canada and the State?.

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WELLINGTON, Sept. 7. ! The Minister of Lands had a long interview to-day with Mr C. Meadows, repiesenti\e of the London firm of Trongrouse and Co.. provision agents, relative to the export; of dairy produce to England. Mr Meadow* is on a visit to New Zealand for the purpose of either baying direct or arranging tor the receipt in London of consignments of butter and cheese, and he proposes visiting all the piincipal producing districts in thecolony. Speaking with theauthoiity of 35 gears' expeiience in the provision trade, dining part of which he has been a personal buyer for his firm in most parbs of Canada and the United States, Mr Meadows ridicules the idea of one dairy expert travelling through the colony to instruct farmeis. What is wanted is several expert men who thoroughly understand the actual requirements of the English market at the present time, and would be able to give correct infoimition about weight, packing, colour, flavour, etc., ot both butter and cheese. Up te the present time he considers the people of New Zealand have been asleep to the provision trade, and do not know what i an important tiade they are neglecting nor to what extent it can bo developed. He expresses a high opinion of the produce fiom this colony that he has seen in London, but says the grievous fault is that butter is not uniform in either flavour, colour, or method of packing, and the importance of uniformity in these respects cannot be over-estimated. Purchasers want to be in a position from the kegs to judge of the quality and weight of the whole consignment. The colonial cheese industiy has, in his opinion, a great future before it, for there is in England an unlimited market for New Zealand cheese at a fair lemunerative rate. Hitherto makers in this colony have not studied the requirements of the market either as regards size, colour, or weight. To send small cheeses is a ttemendons mistake, and he recommends the adoption of a regular standard of about 601b weight. Both classes of expoi tt should be sent away in cool chambers, the temperature not to exceed 40 degrees. In the course of his tiavels, Mr Meadows will be pleased to confer Mith an j one specially interested in the subject, and is prepared, if required, tv give addresses in vaiious centres upon the exact lequiiements of the English market I toi butter and cheese.