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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10771, 18 January 1932, Page 2

Perhaps no vegetable has become so popular in (,’ermany as Die tomato. Yet some thirty years ago it was hardly known. When if, did appear it was regarded with suspicion on account of its brilliant colour, and it was considered to be harmful. For a long time, under the name of Liebesapfe) (love apple) it was cultivated iu only a few gardens for decoration. To-day Die tomato is eaten and enjoyed in every form by rich and poor, Now that it. has been proved that Diis useful fruit will keep good for more than six weeks in ice storage, the growing grounds throughout the country have been enormously increased. bur foreign importers, witli Holland at their head, do a very great trade with Cermany.

“A friend told me the other day that: she had been trying New Zea.laud butter, but found it horrible—ho intensely salt." This is an extract from ;i letter which an Aucklander has received from bis sister in Edinburgh. ‘T told her that real New Zealand butter was most delicious,” continued the writer, “and that I took it for a long time after I came back from New Zealand. I insisted on the, store whore I dealt keeping it, hut the price as well as the quality varied like a jumping jack. It is a pity that we cannot get the real, pure New Zealand butler here." The Aucklander who got the letter said the merchants at Home could not he blamed for using New Zealand butter for blending purposes after they bought it, hut New Zealand had a real grievance in the fact that inferior butter was sold with a New Zealand label on it. It was doing New Zealand butter a great deal of harm, and it is urgent that steps should be taken to deal with the matter.