NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 67, 21 March 1933, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —For the information of those interested in the pushing of the sales of New Zealand butter on the English markets the following extract from a letter from a provision dealer in the Midlands should be of interest:—

"We have just spent £300 on a newbutter machine to mill your New Zealand butter. It is awfully hard when it gets here and sales go right off in the winter months. This machine mills and softens it and also cuts and wraps in lib packages. So we are hoping to keep the sales up now. We sell at lid per pound." This dealer is in a fair way of business and lias two or three shops. Is it not probable that small shopkeepers will not stock Now Zealand butter for reasons stated and have insufficient capital or turnover to justify purchase of butter machines? Wpuld it not be good business for the Dairy Board to mill our butter j in London and so meet demands of the' trade?—l am, etc., I " PROGRESSIVE.

A Press Association message from Invercargili reports the death of Mr. Frank D. Morrah, director of the firm of Henderson and Co., stock and station agents, at the age of 66. Before joining the company he successfully managed several large estates in Australia and Xew Zealand for the Bank of Australasia.