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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 187, 9 August 1940, Page 2

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competitor to Butter ‘‘lt’s a shame! M shouted a shareholder at the annual meeting of the Te Awamutu Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., when attention was directed to the practice in some Dominion schools of teaching the cookery classes the use of margarine. The secretary-manager, Mr. A. J. Sinclair, said he very much doubted a statement that 90 per cent, of the housewives in the cities were using margarine in preference to butter for cooking. But the growing use of margarine was a menace to bo faced, he added, and the surest way of meeting it was to lower the cost and popularise the use of butter. In Germany a man strolled up to a corner and, pausing, tightened his trouser belt another notch. A Gestapo member demanded, sharply: “What are you doing?” “I was just having my breakfast,” was the reply.