BUTTER IN ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 6

BUTTER IN ENGLAND.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Almost every day we read of some person or other returning from the Old Country and airing scare views about what will become of New Zealand butter now that the people at Homo prefer margarine. This time it is Mr Simpson addressing the United Kingdom Manufacturers’ and New Zealand Representatives’ Association, who raises the alarm, that New Zealand butter will find in the future a very little place in the Home market. This is all bunkum, for I can remember the last war when our 2oz per person ration was as precious as gold, and how at Friday tea (the day of the issue) we ate the whole 2oz, saying we would at least have one good meal a week. I know from letters I receive from England that this time margarine would not be even looked at if butter could bo bought. The English are a butter-eating people and no margarine, however much the vitamin content, will ever appeal to the palate. This substitute is only used because the real thing is unprocurable except as rationed, and I venture to say that when butter is again released there will be an even greater demand than ever before, because folk will have been so utterly sick of margarine.—l am, etc., LAVINIA SALISBURY. 3/8/40. ,