NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1923, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

COMPLAINTS IN AUSTRALIA. A complaint that inferior Xew Zeatoi butter has been imported into Queeniluv and New South Wales was brought aftfler the notice of the Federal Minister for Customs in Melbourne last week ty Messrs. Corser and R. Green, M.P.V V» Minister made immediate inquiries, «» ascertained that certain New ZeaUaj butter which had recently been imported into New South Wales had been detained by. the Collector of Customs under tie Commerce Act. Upon examination tome of the butter was found to be below t» standard prescribed in the Act. Mt Chapman stated that there was exceeefte moisture in some of the butters; MB* were deficient in butterfat, and were Mβ below the New Zealand standard of » per cent, while others were serioWV ehort in weight. In consequence of these defects the butter was seized for beanaf a false trade description. It was OUJ covered, also, that the New Ze»to*j grade certificates which were prestntw did not, in every instance, represent t» butter as imported. The departflWWi however, had done everything possible *• meet the situation, and the imports' had been informed that the infenor butter might be either returned to >•* Zealand, exported to an oversea port* reworked an I brought up to the Comm«J wealth standard, or properly m,r *s? under the Commerce Act to show cle«v that the butter was below the CommOß* wealth standard. The policy adopted » connection with these importations **■ in accordance with the practice preview observed.