AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

INGENIOUS COMPETITION

(Received 14th May, '2 p.m.). (A.P.A. and "Sun.") .■■'■

LONDON, 13th May. Messrs. Fairbairn and Huxham,and many Australian officials, were present at the Overseas Farmers' Warehouse in Toolcy street, when the judeine was carried out. of Australian competition l^J'n 1? 0? IDg) of the.Australian Dairy Control Board, explained that twenty factories had submitted two cases each for the new competition: one case remaining in Melbourne and one being sent to London under ordinary conditions. The judging in London and Melbourne was simultaneous, arid this uould show the effect of transport on various butters. The London judges, Messrs. Sutherland-Thompson, the analytical expert, and A. C. Boss,-the New Zealand grader, awarded marks from" 92

Mr. Fairbairn said that he hdped Australian butter would soon be all 92 per cent, and over, enabling it to compete against the whole world Mr Huxham said he hoped to live to bT RrT- re £ oducts ™« Mghly valued by Britain than at present—as well as a jigger stream of migrants to Austr£

Mr. Pollard, an importer, said thai it was an ingenious competition,'and the results should be most valuable/though the human element entered in through having two sets of judges. He paid » tribute to the methods V the lustraban Control Board in London, which: in every way sought to work harmoniously, •nith the trade in London. '