WELLINGTON NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 12873, 24 July 1906, Page 3

WELLINGTON NOTES.

[jSracxAi. to the Star.]

_ Jury 24. The nse in butter hero to- Is 3d per lb is received by the housekeepers' with akin to those of the camel who felt the last straw added! to his back. These feelings are deepened by rumor from the country that other pennies are shortly to 1* added "to the dairyman's score. Black Swan, DeCumberland, Eclipse, Golden Valley, Gold Leaf, and Makino are the brands,' and housewives loud in their cit for a boycott,, are beginning to protest against the objections lodged against margarine, which they declare to be wlioJesame and palatable, the preparation of animal fat reminding them of the dripping which in the frugal days of> their childhood used to be substituted for butter. Mr Kinsella, the Dairy Commissioner, has pointed out that margarine is liuhititally used here by biscuit-, makers, as it 'is more uniform in cruality, i and therefore is more suitable for their purpose, There is a strong feeling that the resolution of the Fanners' Association onght to be met by resolutions of consumer?. Mr Culver, late sverchuy of the Liberal -l/alrar Association, hac, left fur Napier, i 0 take up the duties of factory inspector there. Hia neiireraenr, from "the former position is explained justly as by reason 0 f ill-health ; nevertheless, it is understood to mean the break-up of the institution with winch lie was for so long associated. In labor circles it is understood that tbe support awarded to the defunct Association will be transferred to the institution lately started in Christchurch. It is announced, on tbe authority of the Greyroouth 'Star,' that the proposal to add the Molesworth street residence to the grant to be made to tbe widow of the late Right Hon. R J. Seddon has been abandoned The proposal in question was neither suggested nor taken up either by the ladv named or by the Government It is therefore -by neither of them that the proposal [ has been abandoned. There were persons wlio talked (whether unwisely or otherwise is not the point), and as the members of the Seddon family have been subjected to some unwarrantable criticism in conse- j queuce, it is 'well to lay stress on the main ' fact, which is that neither the Government I nor Mrs Seddor( nor her family ever had ' any connection with the proposal said by j the Cireynwuth 'Star' to have been abandoned. - - ■■■iii—i >ww