CLAY TO MAKE ICE CREAM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3833, 18 August 1928, Page 4

CLAY TO MAKE ICE CREAM.

STRANGE TRUTH VOUCHED FOR. INQUIRY FOR NEW ZEALAND SOIL. The use of clay to form part of ice cream was a strange fact related by Mr. C. J. Hawken. Mr. Dickie, he said, had been asked by a party in London whether New Zealand could boast of any good clay. The answer being “yes,” Mr. Dickie was asked to send a tin full across as a sample as preliminary to a shipment if it proved satisfactory. “Why not make your pottery in New Zealand; it would be too costly to ship clay, surely?” Mr. Dickie had said. (r We have coal in New Zealand quite handy.” The inquirer, however, declared he did not want to make pottery, but to use the special clay in the manufacture of ice creams for consumption as delicacies in England. That fact Mr. Dickie afterwards confirmed. He discovered cards displayed in shops and “marble bars" under the Foods and Drugs Act, to the effect that the ice creams contained substances of a quantity not harmful to adults, but not to be. eaten by children and invalids.

“That is true!” said Mr. Hawken shaking his head, “and it just shows you they must bo short of things to chew at Home!” (Laughter). Mr. Hawken related that inquiry had also been made as to whether New Zealand had old cow udders for sale. If so there was a good market in Liverpool, where the substance was a substitute on menus for tripe. “I think,” said Mr. Hawken, “our prospects for cheese and meat must be good at Home.” (Laughter).