BUTTER FOR BRITAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 7

BUTTER FOR BRITAIN

LARGE INCREASE SHOWN NEW ZEALAND SHIPMENTS AUSTRALIA ALSO EXPANDS Shipments of butter from Now Zealand during tho current season from August 1 to March 31 totalled 88,240 tons, compared with 71,329 tons in the corresponding period last season, an increase of over 23 per cent. The quantity shipped to Great Britain was 86,631 ton's, against 70,396 tons last season, also a 23 per cent increase. Total shipments in March increased by 37 per cent, the figures being 12,453 tons and 9072 tons respectively. The shipments of butter from Australia to tho United Kingdom in March comprised 10,861 tons, and for tho I season to date, 81,196 tons, compared | with 6895 tons and 64,099 tons respeci lively in tho previous season. Shipments ! from the Argentine to Britain show a j decline, tho figure for tho month being ! 1245 tons, compared with 1880 tons, and for tho season, 9125 tons, against ! 12,537 tons. I During the eight months ended i March, 65,421 tons of New Zealand ' butter wero shipped to London, as j against 56,742 tons during the corresi ponding period of last season, an ini crease of 8679 tons, or 15 per cent, j Tho growing importance of the market j in tho west and midland districts of ' England and in Scotland is indicated I by tho fact that shipments of butter | to West of Britain ports during tho j eight months' period totalled 21,213 j tons, compared with 13,654 tons dur- ' ing tho corresponding period of last ; season, an increase of 7559 tons, or 55 per cent. Last month New Zealand exported i 11,413 tons of cheose and for the season !to date 68,895 tons, compared 'with I 8374 tons and 57,780 tons respectively j in tho season. Tho increase for the month was 36 per cent and for the season to date, 19 per cent. Practically all supplies went to Groat Britain. Shipments of cheese from Australia during tbe last eight months were 4607 tons, an increase of 2396 tons over those for tho corresponding period of 1931-32. In March 700 tons were shipped, against 46 tons in March, 1932. j MARKING OF BUTTER THE WRONG LABEL ENGLISH DEALER FINED [I'HOM oun OWN correspondent] LONDON, March 14 At Epsom, Surrey, on February 20, tho Leatherhead Creamery, Limited, leatherhead, were summoned for exposing for sale imported butter which did not bear any indication of its origin. Mr. P. Burroughs, secretary and director of the company, appeared and pleaded guilty. For tho Surrey County Council, Mr. T. F. Übsdell said that an inspector visited the company's shop, and purchased half a pound of butter wrapped in paper bearing the words "Leather- j head Creamery." He submitted that in j this case tho public would be under the | impression that they were buying English butter. Had the wrapper been stamped "Empire," "New Zealand" or "Imported Butter," defendants would have complied with the Act. Inspector Wolfinden, who made tho purchase, said tho butter was already wrapped when he asked for it. He told the assistant for what purpose the butter was purchased, and he was assured that the butter was genuine New Zealand. He afterwards went to the storeroom and found several cases of butter marked "New Zealand Butter." Mr.- Burroughs said that the inspector called at a time when the butter showcase was being cleaned. Had ho called earlier or later the butter would have been in a case which boro the label "New Zealand Butter." He added that they had now new wrapping paper showing clearly to purchasers that the butter was New Zealand produce. Mr. Übsdell pointed ont that if the showcase had been labelled New Zealand butter tho Act would have beon infringed, as tho butter was already wrapped. If the butter been cut for the purchaser from bulk labelled "New Zealand" no offence would have been committed. Tho Bench imposed h fine of £2.

STORAGE OF APPLES THE EFFECT OF GASSES EXTENSIVE EXPERIMENTS [j.'nOM OUR OWN COIIKKSI'ONDKNX] LONDON. March 14 During tho season 1931-32, says tho roport of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, a large-scale experiment on tho behaviour of four varieties of English apples at three temperatures and in various mixtures of. oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, has been brought to a successful conclusion. Three points of major importance have emerged from the results. In tho iirst place, the experiment has demonstrated that gas-storage, as employed on a commercial scale tor Bramley's Seedling, is id so applicable to Lane's Prince Albert. Secondly, tho wide scope of the experiment has thrown much light on tho casual conditions of certain obscure types of injury which had often been observed in apples carried under refrigeration to this. country from Australia jyul New Zealand. Thirdly, tho importance has been emphasised of u doqu ato \ control of temperature when carbon .dioxide is present, even in concentrations as low as 5 per cent. Tho experimental hold at the Ditton Laboratory enables experiments on tho control of temperature, humidity and the composition of tho atmosphere during tho storage in bulk \of foodstufls which react with their environment, to bo carried out on a scalo yielding rosults of'immediate practical application, and some interesting data are already available. Measurements of tho various thermal quantities involved liavo made it possible to draw up a balance-sheet from which tho rate of generation of heat by tho fruit can be estimated; tho chamber was thus made to play the part of a calorimeter for determining a biological constant. The distribution of temperature inside the stack of fruit is being studied as a function of the system of refrigeration eniployed, tho direction and speed of air-movement and the method of stowing the cases. The system of a few wido vertical -channels employed in preference to tho more customary method of stowage with small horizontal laths has already attracted attention. Tho transfer of heat from fruit to air is an intogral part of tho rofrigcrat* ing process which so far has received scanty attentiqg; > it is being studied in the experimental hold. An important practical result is that to transfer heat from fruit to air at a rate equal to that of its production by the fruit may require a fall in temperature so considerable that measurements of temperature in the air of ship's holds under such conditions would fail to give even an approximately true indication of the actual temperature of tho fruit*