A VISITOR'S COMMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 23 March 1934, Page 9

A VISITOR'S COMMENTS.

THE WAY TO DO THINGS,

"If by arty chance during my talk to you this afternoon, I should perhaps be a little critical of somo of the things which I have seen in New Zealand, I hone you will not say, Look at this 1111 pertinent visitor, coming here to criticise us,'" said Lady Angela St. Clai. Erskine, speaking at the Overseas League luncheon yesterday. "Why on earth do not your country hotels (and your town hotels too, lor that matter) have great jugs 01 thick, yellow cream on the table, such as you get in Scotland I You get really firstclass cooking, as long as it is plain and food, but when it comes to sauces in this country they are absolutely detestable, simply because in tins land ot butter and milk you do not anywhere use anything like the quantity of butter and cream that you should. I tliink we are all frightfully disappointed when we come out here and do not find our J U S cream and big pats of butter. I supnose all of you have it in your homes. If all of you used a little more butter for cooking, instead of spending your money on sauces and you all bought a little more cream, I think the farmers would not notice quite so much that butter was not being used in England. "I had eaten New Zealand butter before I came to New Zealand, and one of the first things I did was to go and see a butter factory, and when I went back to England I asked the shopkeepers 'Why have I not got my butter wrapped in paper?' They said 'It comes in cases. Now, what is going to stop anybody from mixing New Zealand butter with any other butter? It is not New Zealand butter at all, and I think that you are all rather accepting, that. Ttou say 'It is dreadful,' but what steps are you taking to get that altered? I s}>°" 1( 1 have thought that with, this wonderful organisation you could have done a great deal in that direction, because I know already, -from meeting people who belong to this Overseas League, what wonderful things you do for the'» It seems to me that you can do anything for them, and I wondered whether you could not induce everybody, when they go to England, to really take some steps about finding out the conditions, and trvinw to persuade people to see that Sy "get the genuine New Zealand butter! because I am convinced that it is the best butter that you can get anywhere." i The speaker admired the shops here, saying that tliey compared extremely favourably with theirs at Home. She was taking home with her some New Zealand frocks which she considered were better and cheaper than in the Old Pmintrv. The ferries here were also praised." In England they still had the same ferries that were in _ existence when Lady Angela St. Erskine was a small girl. , , In conclusion the speaker said that New Zealand had great charm for her. It had keen kept just like England ant. Scotland was; in fact m some parts she could hardly believe she was not in Scotland. Miss A. R. Quayle, who presided, thanked the speaker. °£*® r guests were Laxly Burdett, Miss Bur dett, Mrs. Chewings and Mrs. Scott.