N.Z. BUTTER IN AMERICA
AND 1 VANCOUVER RESULT OF NE* TARIFF,' Under date Seattle, November 5, the Vancouver 'Province' publishes the following :—The New Zealand butter, which has kept the. Seattle market down from 2 to 5 cents per pound during the entire fall, arrived yesterday from San Francisco on the steamer Buckman, where the stranger was brought overseas, by the Union Steamship Company's steamer Tahiti. There were not more than a few hundred cubes in the first lot, but the consignee, H. L. Klock, is proud of his efforts at importing the first of the competitive stock under the new tariff laws, and he declared yesterday that it was the equal in every way of the best ifresh churned Washington creamery butter, and not at all like what is known, to the trade as storage butter.
The importation of New Zealand butter to this market has not bsen possible heretofore for two reasons: The high tariff and the preservatives formerly used, in the butter, which are prohibited under the Federal food and drug act. New Zealand manufacturers, however, have been posting themselves on the food laws of the United States, and accordingly they put up stock for'shipment here without pre-, servatiyes of any sort. The butter is mild, slightly undersalted as compared with the American taste, and beautifully colored. Approximately 8,000; cubes of New Zealand butter/ has been ordered by Seattle jobbers and brokers for distribution on this market, most of which is dueto come as fast as the steamships can bring it across the Pacific on its twenty-day journey. The tariff laws cut the duty on butter from 6 to 2J cents per pound. This let New Zealand stock in.
The 'Province' adds:--Some local produce men have already contracted, orders to ship N.Z. butter to Seattle here. The butter will arrive on the R.M.S. Niagara. Several special lots have been prepared by the southern creameries for the United States trade. No preservatives of any kind will be used: Prom, inent butter men here say there will be quite a trade in this product next season if all. things work out as expected. '
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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 19 December 1913, Page 3
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