NEW ZEALAND GOOD ENOUGH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 169, 26 October 1910, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND GOOD ENOUGH.

Activity in commercial and shipping circles is a happy augury for the success of New Zealand's 1910-11 season, and from indications in every part of this Dominion we are about to enjoy an exceedingly prosperous time. If anticipations are fulfilled, this will have the effect of attracting people to New Zealand, and it is on this basis alone than the expansion can be maintained at a rate in consonance with the demands of markets, commercial rivalry, and the safety of this country. It has been noted that the New Zealand and Shaw-Savill companies will despatch weekly steamers from Wellington and Auckland 1 respectively during the busy season, instead of once a month. At the end of last year the New Zealand Shipping Company put on the Ruahine and Rotorua, each of 13,000 tons, in the New Zealand trade, and the promise to augment these by the addition of two similarly splendid steamers shows that their confidence in an increased output is very great. Taranaki is particularly concerned in this departure, for steamers of the Ruahine class have insulated space for 200,000 boxes of butter. That is to say, the shipping companies are looking years ahead, for the biggest shipment of butter ever sent from this country was per the Turakina last year, when she took 60,969 boxes, a further shipment of 54,141 boxes leaving by the Athenic the following month. The Chief Dairy Commissioner (Mr. D. Cuddie) says that the expansion of the dairy industry has created unprecedented demands, and that extra work is necessary to cope with the increasing business. He believes that a regular weekly steamer carrying the whole available supplies for the period is a better method than despatch by various vessels and would ensure a constant and steady supply in the London market. It is damaging to the trade when two steamers carrying butter arrive in London at about "the s same date, and no further supply is available for a fortnight. If the two companies named ensure for producers the perfectly regular service contemplated, it will be of immense service to the country and a great impetus to the dairying business. If Canada is "the granary of the Empire," there seems to be no reason why New Zealand should not be its "buttery."