К вопросу о появлении сибирского масла на лондонском рынке.
SIBERIAN BUTTER'S BID
FOR THE ENGLISH MARKET.
GIGANTIC SCHEME OF STATE AID.
[From Our Correspondent.] -LONDON, March 18.
Siberian butter promises to be a formidable competitor with Australian and New Zealand in the London market, and the Russian Minister of Finance is setting to work to improve and develop the butter industry in Siberia, and to increase the sale of Siberian butter in the foreign markets in a whole-hearted way that savors rather of colonial methods of State aid than of the laissez faire attitude that the British Government adopts towards British commerce. In fact, the measures which the Ministry has decided to adopt seem to be considerably in advance of Government enterprise at the Antipodes.
Here they are: The Ministry have decided to found three dairy schools in Kainsk, in Kurgan, and in Omsk; to increase the number of instructors and artisans in order to teach the local farmers how to prepare butter, and to hold, with the help of the instructors, special courses of lectures to found laboratories in Siberia for scientific research in all matters concerning dairy produce, to establish the normal standard of milk and all products procured from it, and to explain the reasons of any defects and also to found five experimental stations where milk and butter would be tested by experts; to furnish the butter factories, the harbors, and steamers of the Siberian rivers, and all the principal railway stations, with refrigerating stores; and to increase the number of quick trains for the conveyance of butter from Siberia to the Baltic harbors, and to add 465 new railway cars to the 570 which are already in use, with refrigerators for the summer season; also to establish a severe control so that the temperature of stores and cars shall not exceed 42deg.; to open up credit with the Russian Government Bank for the butter-men, not only for their working capital, and on the invoices of their butter consignments; to promulgate a law increasing the. punishment of adulterating butter, similar to the aue existing relating to flax and hemp; and to decrease the railway tariff for conveying implements for the butter industry. Apart from the direct communication established during 1901, providing special quick trains for conveying butter and other products of a perishable nature from Siberia to Riga,—and from Riga to London, to found another similar line going from Riga to Hull once a week. To communicate through specially-appointed expert in London to the British Committee attached to the Board of Agriculture in St. Petersburg the result of the analysis made by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture of the samples of butter produced in all parts of the Russian Empire, of the normal compounds of butter in commerce. For all these above purposes a permanent credit of
₤7000 a year, and a sum of
₤20,000 as assistance, have been granted at once. It is expected that with this help the quantity of butter produced in Siberia during the current year will be double that of last year, and that its quality will be greatly improved.
Some colonies I wot of might take a wrinkle or two from this scheme. For instance, the communication to the produce expert of the results of the analyses of butters from all parts of Russia might well receivel consideration from your Government.
Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1902, Page 5
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Стоило русскому министру финансов во всеуслышание заявить об открытии школ мастеров маслоделия в Каинске, Кургане и Омске, как тотчас же запахло перераспределением финансовых потоков, и мировые производители масла быстренько начали писать в штаны...
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