NOT GIVEN FAIR DEAL

Southland Times, Issue 25314, 18 June 1935, Page 7

NOT GIVEN FAIR DEAL

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER IN BRITAIN. ENGLISHMAN’S OPINION. “I do not think New Zealand butter is being given a fair deal on the English market,” said Mr A. Sanderson, who arrived last week in Wellington from South Shields, North of England. “The butter, which is marketed at Home as New Zealand butter is of very inferior quality, and is thought worse than margarine; I was amazed at the difference between it and the New Zealand butter which I had on the ship coming out and at Wellington since my arrival. . “I am personally convinced that the butter sold in England as the New Zealand product is always much adulterated; it is indeed marked ‘blended,’ and probably contains only a very small percentage of genuine New Zealand butter. The flavour is bad, and although it sells as cheaply as at 8d a pound, folk infinitely prefer Danish butter at 1/2. English butter is not really commercially on the market; it is actually obtainable, at about .2/- a pound, at certain shops, but it is not in general use. Most of it is consumed in the country districts that produce it. “There is warm support being given to the Empire marketing campaign at Home, and New Zealand mutton is proving very popular indeed; in many districts it is preferred to English mutton. ■ The same would no doubt apply to New Zealand butter, if butter of the same quality as is sold here were placed on the market in England.”