DOMINION’S GOLDEN COW

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1924, Page 9

DOMINION’S GOLDEN COW

A PLEDGE OF CONSTANCY. “NO MORE FOREIGN BUTTER.” London, Oct. 30. Forty women who were assembled round the Golden Cow in the New Zealand pavilion at the Empire Exhibition a few days ago took a sG'lemn vow. It was probably the most unique incident that has occurred inside the pavilion during the period of the exhibition. Some 160 members of a women’s patriotic. league were visitors to the pavilion. They were split up into parties of 40, and a member of the staff was asigned to each section to explain the exhibits. When Mr. M.. J. Reardon, at the head of his section, arrived at the. case containing the excellent, butter exhibits with the’ life-size cow moulded in butter; he took the opportunity of addressing his following. He. pointed out to them that there were returned soldiers in New Zealand working from the earliest hours of the morning to late at night to make a living out of their dairy cows. "And yet,” he said, “there are people in this cQuptry who will buy foreign butter when they can buy New Zealand butter equally. as good, and at a lowet price.” “Ladies,” said one of the visitors, “'let us here and now pass a resolution •that never shall we buy foreign butter when it is possible to buy butter produced within the Empire.” And there, in the presence of the Golden Ck>w, one and all registered a vow to be faithful ; to-. the dairy herds of the British Empire.