MONETARY & COMMERCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 21 September 1909, Page 3

MONETARY & COMMERCIAL.

.: ■ Passs. Association.— Copyright. : vTiBE LONDON MARKETS. •'•"'■ (Received Sept. 21, 9.40 a.m.} : ;••-::;.-.••;.■' . LONDON, Monday. . The total quantity of wheat and flour 'afloaf for the United Kingdom is 1,595j000 quarters, and for the Continent .1,465,000 quarters. Atlantic shipments are 156,000 quarters and Pacific 32,000 quarters. -A serious position has arisen as the result of >he. rapidry-wrowing competition which the dairy farmers are encountering from' the manufacturers of margarine iri Sydney. It was authoritatively asserted, (says' the "'Telegraph") that 'the previously big output of. this article, had increased tenfold during the past year, and that, despite the complacent official assurances as to the protection afforded, the- public by the Jfure Eoodi Act, the. majority of. those who consumed these .substitutes did to under the • impression that they . were : eating butted .The position was taken up by thei Co-operative; Dairy Conference, and the ParUamentary. representatives of several- dairying districts, who were, pre^' sent; said the ;<inly way to put this trade: ; ;6n:'. ; a "legitimate footing- was to' -absolutely • prohibitf tSie addition of .the ;colouring- s niiitter,v\?hicK • made margarine a, deceptive colourable imitation of butter."' -How closely maTgarine ■resembles the genuine ' articles may be gath-■eied;-from''thfr fact' that samples'of: thw su)Btefiirte and butter were submtited side by- side to ; tho delegates— all practicaldairymen and butter .experte— and th« trreat majority failed' to distinguish one ;Sqm' tle'iother.. \ Thla /meml^eirs. oi Pwliament "were .also put through- the same testi and they, were all "plucked.