BOXED BUTTER

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 10

BOXED BUTTER

PREJUDICE AGAINST IT

(rnoa our own correspondent:)

/ LONDON, 14th May, _ -At .a grocery trade meeting held at i.^->y»"«sb. the secretary read letters from the National Union oi GonservaUve Associations, Lanes and .Cheshire area., urging the holding of an We Products Week in Eodhdafe Sf his the saie °* gestion would be found in the fact tit nTsto/k S| eaking the, loCal e«^ dfd not stock Empire goods-especially such thugs as Empire tinned goods and New Zealand butter. Ho did = nofc fc °j stocking these things for one week only iri&-<^ ndd» t'\ OU«ht the id^ of having Empu-e Week display of Empire goods was a good one, bht said the que^ ttrir ■ j °°Uld the local g™cersq^t then- customers to accept those gobds? The public must be educated to buy duofc Ye the NeSV Zealand pro . Mr. Cruddas: "In this district there butter "°"S Pr6juclici3 -«»6 boSa fn^fi Py.esiaehfc = ."These people want us to^elp them to educate the public, a!l a if ye attempt to do that we must do it be'uselel " half-hearfced effort would Mr Hei-ron: "Rochdale people are altogether averee to boxed butter, and just as strongly wedded to Danish butterj but in my opinion the New Zealand butter would sell better if it was sent to us in casks. FaHon: "There can be no doubt The President: "Still, there is a trade in New Zealand butter even in Rochdale. Some local, firms manage to sell Mr. Cruddas: "A great deal of it i s sold , n tl.o South of England, but hero the prejudice against it is very strong. Ivow Zealand butter is very yobd value but-when wo'tried it a few years wo could , na i £c 110 success will , it _ w "| „ \t \ 110<> ■f ynthiS Empire Week boca»s« I we, hiiven t the stock Tor it " ! OHier members also said they had ti-fed | trading with New Zealand butter, but ' had had to stop doing so. They considered it impossible to mnko a big successful show of Empire products in Rochdale on the motion of Mr' Cruddas. seconded by Mr. GreenlmH,'