NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15931, 31 May 1915, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

. Sir,-In come of the leading Scotch newspapers, including the Scotsman and the- Glasgow Citizen, there recently appeared ; the following letter .written by Mr. 'P. Jeffrey Mackie, the well-known and prominent distiller. As ti® subject upon which Mr. Mackie touches is of considerable concern to both settlers and merchants in this Dominion, I ' will m. you to be - good enough , : to # reproduce his utterance 'in your colunuis in lull, text , ■ "The other day I was much struck with' the fine quality of the butter, which was put before me, and " * h&vo a small home dairy for our own use, I asked if it came ; from there, and was told' 1 no—that it was New Zealand butter. v : I found that the price ranked with thai :of • Danish ', butter, { which -is of » wry hiih grade, and after two or time® days' tnaJ L gave orders that the. New Zealand ' butter should 4 for the future >be served upstairs instead of that from our own t dairy. . The moral to be drawn is a serious' warning to our,, home butter; 1 makers to both; organise and specialise, or they may be / crying out in a few years * about ?■ having lust the trade, not through: the Germans, but through our own colonics. Ido not grudge New Roland the trade, especially when she has von it by quality, and I think that now those who buy Danish r'.id other foreign butters might to thur advantage patroniio New Zealand butter. ' . The dealings of Denmark with Germany in the past have not been quite satisfactory to us, while New Zealand has nobly come mr 'id, both with ' her navy and he.' ,1, and patriotism is entitled to a rewind in the '' times. Jeffrey Mackie. Syminrtou, Kilmarnock,. Scotland, -March Id, t 1915." ;J I might Add r that r. > this letter Appeared in the Home papers there hß|Si I reached mc a personal communication froni Mr. Peter oeifrey Mackie, wherein tlift mutter '' fur' 1 x discus*-*!. T '' iuenf'ins that in oi.g: i*. 'y wr.-it/ to • press he was anxious assist New. >lind by giving an irwetus to -- the des'vid for butter from that Dominion. I am also inclined to think that ho naturally considered that there would be a recompense at his end in the reciprocal trade which would be encouraged. He realised that Denmark was deriving a. very large revenue from her butter, while'Britislwnade butter was not used to anything like the extent it might be. It is instructive to learn that as a result of Mr, Mackie's correspondents in the newspapers he was qvie unable to get fresh supplies of New Zealand buttv • the follow i' ,3 week; the stock had entirely ran out, aiul .tone was procurable. Mr. Mackie adds that quality will always tell in the 'out? run. He feels convinced that the well-deserved tribute which lie has paid to New Zetland butte- V- • not Veen without its effc< upon consumers in his vicinity. He :s unite sure that th<- demand I for our admirvHs product wf" -,tead".yj increase. Charles o.»..vks. ( Wellington, May 25. 1915. i