MEAT AND BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1921, Page 7

MEAT AND BUTTER.

TRADE WITH HONOLULU. , New Zealand producers have an opportunity of opening up trade with Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands generally. Frozen meat from here is already in course of shipment, and a quahtity of butter as well as other produce is on order. “If the shipping facilities were only normal we might do a fairly good trade in agricultural produce with the Hawaiian Islands,” says a merchant who is in touch with the situation. “New Zealand butter, which has now become well-known in the United States, is superior to the Californian product, and the people of Honolulu would prefer it if they could get it regularly. Then our apples would sell well there in the offseason if they were introduced, for the American variety, although it looks well and is produced under good conditions, has not nearly as good a flavour as our New Zealand apple. Frozen meat, which has been so welcome on the Canadian and American market, would do well in Honolulu also, and I understand a large shipment has already been arranged for.”

The difficulty, however, seems to be the shipping, and the present dislocation of the ser.vice is yet another obstacle in the way of developing what might prove to be a very profitable trade in the Dominion.