FLAVOURED BUTTER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21212, 18 December 1930, Page 7

FLAVOURED BUTTER.

ENGLISH MARKET REQUIREMENT A TRIAL CONSIGNMENT. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, December 17. Impressed with the need for placing more highly flavoured butter on the London market to compete with the Danish article, the Prime Minister (Mr G. W. 'Forbes) requested, before he left England on his return to New Zealand, that a consignment of specially made butter, should be sent Home for trial purposes. Danish butter finds a ready sale in England on account of its freshness and greater flavour, and New Zealand exporters are anxious to find ways and means to place on the market an article that will be able to compete with the Danish product from this viewpoint. Following upon the request of the Prime Minister, the question has been dealt with by the Dairy Research Management Committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the New Zealand Produce Control Board haa also interested itself in the matter by providing £lO6 towards ,the cost of arranging for the trial shipment. The butter is to be made at the Daily Research Institute at Palmerston North, and the director of the institute (Professor W. Riddet) and Mr W. M. Singleton, of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, are to co-operate in the work. It is_ hoped to produce an article which, while containing a desirable flavour, win be free from the undesirable taints which are often found when butter has been stored for any considerable-time. The landing of untainted butter on the English market has been the subject of research for some years, and the present trial will provide interesting information in view of the particular care being taken to incorporate a good flavour. If the trial is successful the outcome will undoubtedly be a strengthening of the market for New butter, and there will be a greater chance of competing on better ground with the Danish product.