KEEP IT UP

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 284, 4 January 1930, Page 11

KEEP IT UP

Per Press Association.

, yl ALJTY OF EXFOHT BUTTBH. A D0AUN10N NECESS1TY.-

WELLINGTON, Last night. 'J'liat disastcr will i'ollow any attcnipt ' >u Ncw Zealand'.s part to supply over- ! sea, jnarkcts with any otlier tlnin tlie i tinest grado of Imtter, was the opiniori I enijihatically expresscd by Yiscouut j Craigavon, Prime Alinister of Northern Ireland, in an interview to-dav. "Oue tbing 1 am quite confident of,'' said Yiscouut Craigavon, "is that any Migeio.stion tliat a sligbtl.v lower grade oi New Zealand luitter than the presont standard will suffice consumers at Home is entirelv erroneous. New Zealand hutter holds pride of plaoc heenu.se of its quality, and auv proposal to make a greater prolit in New Zealand hy Mijjplving an artiele not quitp up In tlie best tbat can be produced wntild be a i'atal poliey. "Loeking: on the heart nf tbe Britisb Empire as 1 do and ob.serviug tlie strenuous efforts being: made by ioreign coniitries to work their wnv into tlie arteries of trade tbere, 1 can realise ! that tlie slichtest relaxation in the | oxeellenee of the primarv produets j from New Zealand would lead to untold disastcr. F.very trade maik shoiild | read 'simertinp' or 'oxcellont.' " i New Zealanders, he addcd. were in j tliiied to losc siglit of the ronipetition i which oxisted. C'omfiotitors wero uatchiiux like hnwks to poiniee unnn ihe lnarkets now sujiplied by New Zealand lmtier and cbee^o. Knowing tlie Kreat and alert niacliinery of tlic Danes and otlier near European countries. iio eoiild not lielp thinkiiiK tbat Now Zealand would make a Tatai blunder if it j ima'iined any otlier than tlie finest I -rrade of dairy produce would suffice. I YNcouut ('raigavou left to-night for j T,y ttelton.