DOMINION'S GOLDEN COW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18887, 9 December 1924, Page 13

DOMINION'S GOLDEN COW.

A PLEDGE OF CONSTANCY.

" NO MORE FOREIGN BUTTER."

[i'F.OK OUR. OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON. Oct. 30.

Forty women who were assembled round the Golden Cow in the New Zealand pavilion at the Empire Exhibition a few days ago took a solemn vow. It was probably the most unique incident that has occurred inside the pavilion during the period of the exhibition. Somo 160 members of a women's patriotic leagu-j were visitors to the pavilion. They were split un into parties oil 40, and a member of the staff was assigned to each section to explain the exhibits. When Mr. M. J. Reardon, at the head of his section, arrived at the case containing the excellent butter exhibits with the life-size cow moulded in butter, ho took the opportunity of addressing his following. He pointed out to them that there were returned soldiers in New Zealand working from the earliest, hour? of the morning to late at night to make a living out of their dairy cows. " And yet.," he said; " there arc people iu this country who will buy foreign butter when they can buy New Zealand butter equally "as goor.. and at a lower price." ' " Ladies," said one of the visitors, " let us here and now pass a resolution that never shall we buy foreign butter when it. is possible to buy butter produced within the Empire."

, And there, in the presence of th« Golden Cow, one and all registered a vow to bo faithful to the dairy herds of the British Empire.