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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 53

An applicant for an old age pension at Lyttelton recently, who had sold a property and obtained £2OO for it, stated that the money had nearly all been spent in funeral expenses and “ paying just debts.” It appeared (says the ‘‘ Lyttelton Times ”) that one of the items was £42 for a gravestone.

‘ Reporting to a conference of representatives of co-operative butter factories, which sat in Sydney a few days ago, Mr Morrison, head salesman for the Coastal Farmers’ Co-operative Society, said: “Comparing our best brands with New Zealand and Victorian best, I am satisfied the quality and get-up are in our favour. It is only prejudice that enables them to realise more, and this in a very short time must break down and our butters take their legitimate place amongst the ‘ primest Australian.’ My inquiries,” wrote Mr Morrison, in conclusion,” “ amongst the largest houses in London have convinced me that grading by Government officials is of absolutely no value. Buyers are not in any way influenced in favour of butter bearing the Government stamp. Every man buys on his own judgment, and —as in Sydney —some of our brands are bought on the reputation of the factory, buyers not taking the trouble to put the trier in. Although constantly amongst Government graded butter, I never heard of a case where such butter was bought on the ‘grade mark,’ buyers treated it as they would any other, and sampled, just as freely as they did ungraded ”