OUR BUTTER IN ENGLAND.

Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 176, 17 March 1927, Page 6

OUR BUTTER IN ENGLAND.

j ON RETAIL MARKET. | Unobtainable in Some Parts. t Mr. T. R. Bennett, of the Mangateparu soldiers settlement, made some interesting remarks to a MorJ rinsville Star reporter the other day in connection with the retail sale of New Zealand butter in England, in some parts of which it is said to be unobtainable. , During the war period, said Mr. j Bennett, he went into a shop in WilIden, Worcester, in the Midlands, and asked for some New Zealand butter. “We don’t stock foreign butter,” was the shopkeeper’s cheerful reply. I Mr. Bennett speedily assured the I shopkeeper that New Zealand was not a foreign country, and at the | same time espied a cheese crate bear- | ing the New Zealand name of “ICauI pokonui.” I “Oh, that comes from Wales,” dej dared the shopkeeper whose attention was drawn to it. j Eventually the shopkeeper* admitted that he did s'eil New Zealand butj ter and cheese and the public, who j were led to believe it was the best j English-, liked it. The shopkeeper’s J excuse for the camouflage was that if the opposition shops heard that New Zealand butter was of such good quality, they, also, would stock it. That practically no advance has been made as far as the recognition of New Zealand butter is concerned on the local market, is borne out by a further statement by Mr. Bennett. Last Christmas he took advantage of the ' scheme of having several pounds of New Zealand butter sent to a relative in the town referred to above. In a letter receiver recently, pleasure was expressed by the recipient at the “lovely butter.” “It was beautiful and I think it was the nicest I have ever tasted.” The writer kept one pound for himself and the remainder was distributed among fz*iends, all of whom passed the same remark about its fine quality, j asking if they could get more, j Then the letter goes on: “I have j asked our grocer to get .some but he caunot obtain it. I have asked him i to get some from the office in London.”