THE PRIZE BUTTER.

Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 70, 24 March 1877, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE PRIZE BUTTER.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EVENING POST. Si A — Your impression of the 2nd March contained an advertisement that special prizes would be given at the Hutt show. It was stated that Mr. Dutton would present an inkstand, valued at £1 10s. for the best 6 lbs of printed butter. No conditions were imposed, and, as an extensive dealer in butter, I exhibited some which I had bought of Mr. Dalgetty. I did not enter it as my own make, but simply as my butter. When asked by Mr. Corbett as to who the maker was, I told him that it was Mr. Dalgetty, but I distinctly deny having told him that Mr. Dalgetty had asked me to enter it for him. Mr. Corbett states that the object of the society, of which he is the secretary, would not be attained if persons such as I were not checked in their endeavour to obtain credit for other people's industry. May I ask him what industrious people would do without people like myself who go from farm to farm to purchase produce for the market, which would not be properly supplied without us. Mr. Dalgetty wishes me to state that he sold me the butter, but never asked me to enter it for exhibition. I am, &c., Henry Southee. Hutt, 22nd March.