GLASS IN BUTTER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22580, 19 November 1936, Page 12

GLASS IN BUTTER

AMAZING CARELESSNESS FLOOR BRUSH IN CHEESE NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE COMPLAINTS IN ENGLAND Allegations of extraordinary carelessness by some dairy produce factories which had caused complaints by some of New Zealand's best buyers of butter and cheese were made by Sir James Parr, former New Zealand High Commissioner in London, on his arrival at Auekland yesterday. Sir James said that large users of New Zealand dairy produce had given to liim instances of extraneous articles being found by them in New Zealand butter and cheese through sheer carelessness by certain factories. One produced a cheese with a scrubbing brush in tho centre; it had got there in the process of manufacture. The same firm brought to him an envelope full of broken glass which had been part of a thermometer. It. was extracted from New Zealand butter.

"I do not for a moment say that such gross carelessness is general, hut that sort of thing has only to happen three or four times to do us a big injury," said Sir James. "In London I would not have mentioned such matters publicly, but I have weighed tho question of stating them publicly hero, and 1 have come to tho conclusion that they will servo to impress tho warning that dairy factories cannot afford to do anything that will damage tho Dominion's reputation."