AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 September 1925, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.

“MADE FROM DOGS’ MILK. ’

KXTI t.YORDI NARIY MALAY HUMOUR. The circulation of an am'a.zmp; rumour in the Malay States that Auvsti’alian but .tv is made from dogs’ milk has seriiMimy perturbed local .shippers, says the .-yaney e.n.YCwpon.lent of the Auckland Him aid. As the- tlqg is r.s nfohoe-rt’-iit. to -the Malays, who are M/ahoiuniit'dans. .a.s -the pig is, the e-ffecit on Aiiabra/jian trade in butter can bo imiagi nod. 'llie statements are contained in a letter received from the Lisiifoie (New So uth W.alles) Chamber of O.sauniiei eo by the Cuistomsi Department. The oh timber thinks bhiw -prejudice would be ibe.sb overcome if some Malay citizens could be brought to A.uistilailia to in.spent the processes of dairy produce manufacture Mr. Holland Green, ALP., the Federal member for the d/i-sti'i-ct, through whom the letter was trail,sun.i'tred, has received an acknowledgment .stating that -inquiries vveie being made. lie belieros that -till© .story was circulated by .-x 'business competitor in Alaliayu Air. R. C'ook, ALP., who also represents la dairying district, said in England there were people who really believed the Kangaroo brand on Australian, butter meant that the butter was made from kangaroos’ milk. In China, and in the- F'a.r East generally', where Australian jams showing a parrot on the label are received, keen disappointment is, it .ii=i stated, l’eilt by purchasers when they find tiliat tho tins do not contain stewed parrots..