DISAPPOINTING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8736, 19 May 1914, Page 6

DISAPPOINTING

LONDON BUTTER MARKET. MARGARINE TRADE INCREASING. “The London butter market has proved disappointing to consignors," eays the annual report -of the South Island Dairy Association. “The strike prevented but. tex* getting away, and then -shipment*, wer© heavy from Now Zealand, and. mot heavy shipments from Australia, causing a glut on the market Prices rapidly fell and have remained low all along Many other causes contributed; a mild season in United Kingdom and on the Continent; German supplies of Danish were diverted to I/mdou; Irish, butter came on tbo market a month earlier than usual; the margarine trade has increased very much. For the last four months in 1912 the imports of mar. garine were 23.765 tons, and for the four last months in 1913 they wore 27,15 b tons, and no doubt the British manufacture -corere pondingly increased. The British agriculturist as well as the colonial (suffer badly ' from this .bogus butter But it is good and will always sell readily. It is better than second-rate butter and most boarders fin hotels, restaurants, lodging houses, get nothing else than margarine.. The British public evidently don’t exactly like to accept margarine under its name, so the British Board of Agriculture have approved of 154 fancy names under which it can be Lpd 1• ■ Some people do actually like'being gulled. It as, however, surprisin'' to learn that the British Board of ACTiculture actually assets- in this way in gulling the public, to the detriment of those whose interests they are supposed to foster and <*>nscrve. “High-class butter need not fear matv garine but lower classes, must suffer, and the danger is that with home separation and increase m moisture our butter on the whole. is not so good ms when we had less moisture and no borne separation. We know we have some factories in New Zealand whose butter m £Su?paosed iu the whole world, but , _i| {oar. There were, then, rea-. sons for the unfortunate, trend of the butter market in Lonaou.