MARGARINE’S THREAT

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 12

MARGARINE’S THREAT

Mr. Nash Discusses Danger PROPAGANDA NEEDED * {By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 13. _ Possible dangers to New Zealand's dairying industry front the competition of margarine in Britain were discussed by the Minister of Marketing. Mr. Nash, during an address tonight. The market for primary produets was becoming more and more restricted, the Minister said, and. with regard to dairy produce, there was danger from competition. Would people be willing, lie asked, to pay 1/4 a pound for butter, if they could get margarine at about halt’ Unit price and if margarine were as good as butter? Personally lie believed, and he had heard scientists say it, that there was a a content in butter, from the sun-produced grass that gave more nutrition to a child Ilian came from other fats, but there were some scientists at home now saying that, if they could get margarine, it was not worth while risking the life of a single sailor to Import butter. •'lf that, did ultimately prove to be true you can see what, kind of crisis we would have to face in this country. Mr. Nash said. “I do not think we have to face it yet, but we have to face putting out some kind of propaganda to encourage people to use butter after we have proved that butter is better than other things from the point of view of nutrition.”