BLENDED BUTTER

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3399, 28 July 1932, Page 2

BLENDED BUTTER

A DELUDED PUBLIC. Members of the Acton Women Citizens' Association met recently to hear a lecture on New Zealand by Mr. T. J. Pemberton, of the London Office of the New Zealand Associated Press. In the course of his address Mr. Pemberton referred to the subject of blended butters. He mentioned that on the previous day he had been one of a party of New Zealanders to visit the works of the Telegraph Condenser Company, of North Acton. This company, he said, had set a splendid example of reciprocal trade. Several valuable contracts had been received by the firm from New Zealand, and the Dominion had thus been partly responsible fcr keeping nearly 100(? Acton yirls in regular employment. In order to show their appreciation a meeting of the staff and the employees had been called and it was unanimously resolved to purchase New Zealand butter in preference to that from any other country. It was one thing to pass a resolution, said the speaker; it was a more

difficult thing to break the habits of a life time. Would these girls have the power to influence their mothers sufficiently to prevent their ordering butter which is a blend of Argentine, of Latvian, Esthonian, or Russian with a proportion of Australian or New Zealand? They had too long been buying this blended butter some of it excellent to the palate for the first two days—under the impression they were buying English butter, and they had been paying more for the blend than they need pay for the best ingredient—New Zealand. Fortunately, an Order in Council had gone through, and it would not be long before the blenders would have to brand their butter in such a way as to indicate what were the component parts. Then the public would at least know they were not eating fresh butter made from English cream —a delusion that thousands of people had been labouring under for many years.