POOR QUALTY BUTTER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 348, 1 May 1935, Page 7

POOR QUALTY BUTTER

AUSTRALIAN STANDARD GOVERNMENT ALARMED AT INDUSTRY’S FAILURE Press Association —Copyright Canberra, April 30. The Federal Ministry is gravely perturbed at the failure of the Australian dairying industry to improve the standard of export butter. The acting-Prime Minister, Dr. Earle Page, declared today that the quality was now lower than il was several years ago. Danish butter was selling in Britain at Is 3d a pound, but Australian was selling at only lOd a pound, he said. He emphasised that improvement in the quality and in the price would add immediately to the income of the Australian dairying industry and strengthen the oversea trade balance.

Dr. Page expects that when export control arrangements are being revised at the beginning of August the Commonwealth Government will have difficulty in standing up to foreign competitors unless Australian supplies of export butter have considerably improved in tire meantime. The official reason for the poor average quality of Australian butter is a dirty and inefficient method of manufacture.