NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

THE EXHIBIT AT WESTMINSTER.

(Fboji Qub Owbt Cobsespondeht.)

LONDON, November 8. As the 6eason#for the sale of ~N<eV Zealand butter is about to begin Mr H. C. Cameron arranged for a trophy of this New Zealand product to be exhibited _at the Cookery and Food Exhibition which has been open all the week at the Horticultural Hall, Westminster. There has been a. good attendance 'of people throughout, and many of them are likely to inquire for New Zealand butter now that it has been brought prominently under their notice. ■V, Thinking the occasion a. good one for advertising New Zealand butter, ' Mr Cameron had some leaflets distributed giving a few facts about the butter, anfl this undoubtedly drew more pointed attention to the exhibit. This pamphlet claimed for New Zealand butter: — That'" it occupied the highest place among colonial butters in the English markets; that .it i« a pure grass butter, made under. ' strict Government inspection in up-to-date preomeriesj that it is noted for its and freedom from moisturej that it con-" tains a ' higher percentage of butxer-f at . than any other -butter; and that it is the ( soundest and best-keeping butter in -.the ' world. Consumers were aidvised "to ask- ; their grocers for N.ew Zealand butteV, to make certain that what they, asked for. i

was supplied to them, and they were warned to -accept no other makes "instead) of it.

But the trouble is that, if you ask in Lon« don for New Zealand butter, you neveJJ, can be certain that you get it. For the' butter commonly supplied as of New Zealand origin a purchaser is "not likely, to ask .a second fiime ! Just as with, meat, so with butter,- .that which is sold as New. Zealand often has never come from the colony at all. But the purchaser cannot know ijhat, and one trial is he <k>es not want any" more of <fhe tough, hard,' and tasteless meat or of the- " fishy ' • butter, as the case^ may be. ,"

Seventeen in every thousand people In England are < seafaring men, an average beaten only by Norway and Sweden, whera 36 per thousand live by the_ sea.