BUTTER FUTURE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 95, 19 October 1931, Page 8

BUTTER FUTURE

MARGARINE COMPETITION

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day.

Butter marketing prospects were discussed by Mr. A. W. Wilson, chairman of directors of tho Empire Dairies, Ltd., on his arrival from Sydney to-day. He said that a market was becoming more difficult to secure, but there still remained a wide scope. It might be that the farmer would have to be content with a lower price. As soon as Butter got into position on displacing margarine a tremendous field would be opened up. New Zealand had done excellent work in Britain in putting up butter in pound pats. This should be extended. The more people could be induced to buy genuine butter in pats the better it would be for Now Zealand and Australia. He admitted that the future would see great competition between butter and margarine. He remarked on the importance of legislation to prevent the blending of any foreign with any Empire butter, and the requirement of distinct labelling. Another good prospect was the British preferential tariff. In Australia a preparation consisting of 15 or 20 per cent, of butter-fat and the balance of cocoanut oil was being sold, and formed a distinct danger to dairy farmers' interests, but legislation had oeen introduced to prohibit such blending.