FOOD VALUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 5

FOOD VALUE

BUTTER OR MARGARINE

PROPAGANDIST HINT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, May .i.3.

Possible dangers to New Zealand's (dairying industry from the competition of margarine in Britain were discussed by the Minister of Marketing <the Hon. W. Nash) during an address tonight. The market for primary products was becoming more and mqye restricted, the Minister said, and, With regard to dairy produce, there was danger from competition. Would people be willing, he asked, to pay Is 4d a pound for butter, if they could get margarine at about half that price and if margarine were as good as butter? Personally, he believed, and he had heard scientists say it, that there was a content in butter from the sunproduced grass that gave more nutrition to a child than came from other fats, but there were some scienti-is at Home .now saying that, .if they '.ould get margarine, it was not worth while risking the life of a single sailor to import butter. "If that did ultimately prove to be true you can see what kind of crisis we would have to face in this country," Mr. Nash said. "I do not think we have to face it yet, but we have to face putting out some kind of propaganda to encourage people to use butter after we have proved that butter Is better than other things from the point of view of nutrition."