WHY THE FUSS ?

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6621, 6 August 1931, Page 7

WHY THE FUSS ?

Soviet Batter Boxes

NEW ZEALAND METHODS COPIED BECAUSE BEST

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 4,.

“Why this fuss about tho Soviet imitating New Zealand butt ■ boxes?” asks Mr H. E. Dakis, of the New Zealand Dairy Producers’ Association. “Ukraine butter has been packed in exact replicas of New Zealand cases. It is not misleading anyone. When the Soviet began exporting, an oxpert investigated the methods of butter packing in London and recommended the adoption of the New Zealand cases and grading as the best. The Soviet slavishly followed, even to tho shape and marks.

“The Smolny’s consignment does not differ from previous shipments.” Mr Norton, of the Australian Dairy Board, agreed that it was absurd to accuse the Soviet of disguising its butter as a New Zealand product. Russia had io need of trickery to gain a market. There were 200,000 cases of Siberian butter in cold storage, which were reducing : prices.

“Conditions under which Russian butter is produced should preclude s use in other European countries whore the standard of living is higher than that in Russia, and where hygienic principles of production are taken as a matter or course,” said Mr J. M. Schapiro, who lias recently returned to Auckland from Russia. So far from being clean, he said, he thought definitely that that butter would be dis-ease-carrying. The cows and the pigs 14v- ’ and slept in tho place where the cows were milked, and the sheds looked as though they had never been cleaned since they were built. Dried cowdung inches deep covered the floor, while the walls were grimy with the accumulated dirt of the years.