THE BUTTER INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13306, 12 October 1906, Page 5

THE BUTTER INDUSTRY.

LEGISLATION PROMISED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— (Received October 11, 9.22 p.m.) London, October 11. Sir Edward Strachey, M.P., at a meeting of the British Dairy Farmers' Association yesterday, stated, on behalf of the Board of Agriculture, that the Government intended to legislate next year upon the lines of the recommendations of the Butter Committee. Sir Edward Strachey has specially identified himself in Parliament with agricultural questions. The Select Committee reported in July, and suggested that butter factories should be registered with the local authority ; that no fat other than butter fat, and no substance capable of being used as an adulterant should be brought into any factory, and that inspectors should have power to enter the factories to inspect any process, and to take sample's. To safeguard the registered factories it was proposed that inspectors should have power to enter any premises where they have reasonable grounds for believing that butter is made, blended, re-worked, treated by any process, adulterated, or stored. International agreements are suggested for the prevention of adulteration, and a penalty for the importation of adulterated butter proportionate to the magnitude of the con-, signment. Margarine Mas the subject of several recommendations. It should be handed to the purchaser in a wrapper on which the word " Margarine," and nothing else, is printed in black, solid capital letters not less than half-an-inch square. The same should apply to an inside wrapper if used. No fancy name should be allowed which suggests butter or anything connected with the dairy industry, and if any fancy name is used on any wrapper other than the outside • and inside ones referred to, " Margarine" should be printed on the wrapper in letters of the same size, colour, and type as those used for the fancy :u.me.