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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1847, 31 July 1907, Page 55

In a recent discussion in the rtouse of Commons Committee on the Gutter and Margarine Bill, Mr Courtney held that people who consumed milk-blended butter did not know what they ’were buying, and, cons'.quently, its sale was a fraud.' Sir Francis Chanmng was responsible for the statement that good butter contained only from 12 to 16 per cent, of moisture, and in some New Zealand and Australian butter the proportion was as low as 10 pei cent. .Mt Bvles expressed his impatience witE what he termed “grandmotherly legm lation.” What poor people wanted wa> something to spread oh their bread, and they did not' care whether it contained 16 per ce'nt. or 24 per cent, of water. If milk-blended butter was cheap enough to meet their wretched, miserable wage, let them have it.

The city magnates of Cleveland, Ohio, have decided that Mr, Jolin D. Rockefeller's name is no longer good enough for the great boulevard which he gave tho city, and have changed it to East Boulevard. “It looks to me like seiving notice. on him that the city wants no more of his gifts,” was a propertyowner’s comment. ' The progressive Maori farmers of the. East Cape have had a young native student at the -experimental farm at luomokahi for some time. /An attempt mnow being made to have hi ui admitted to tne Agricultural College Rt 1 incoln.