"EMPIRE" BUTTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 4

"EMPIRE" BUTTER.

PREFERRED TO ENGLISH,

HOUSEWIFE'S TRIBUTE

Cumberland farm butter, at one time regarded as among .the best in England, is to-day practically a drug on the market. Wholesale dealers are afraid to fix a price at 1/ per lb in case it i 9 too high, and they lose money. Inquiries in Carlisle market, (says the "North Mail") reveal that the high prices which have been charged; have resulted in the majority of people buying imported butter. Empire butter can be obtained at prices ranging from 8d to lid per lb. This v.-eek-end Cumberland farm people were asking 1/2 and 1/3 per lb, which is 6d per ll> cheaper than a year ago. One woman said that she now bought Empire butter and preferred it tn farm butter. "At one time," she said, "my family would eat only farm butter. Now, when ! buy any. they complain of the salt and'the high colour,." " The farmers' point of view is that they finnnot- afford to sell the butter any cheaper. _' _ •, 1