MORE FLAVOUR IN BUTTER

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 8

MORE FLAVOUR IN BUTTER

TRIAL IviAKE FOR EXPORT ,

CHALLENGE TO DANISH ARTICLE.

RESEARCH INSTITUTE’S EFFORT. - * •

By Telegraph.—Press 'Association. Wellington, Last . Night. . Impressed with the need for placing more highly flavoured butter on the London market to compete with the Danish article, the Prime Minister, the Hon. ,G. W. Forbes, requested before he left England on. his return to New .Zealand that a consignment .of epccially made butter should be sent Home for. trial purposes. Danish butter finds a ready sale in England on account of its freshness and greater flavour, and New , Zealand/exporters are anxious to find ways and means to place an article on the market-that.will be-able to compete . with.-the Danish .product from this view - Following upon the request of the Primo Minister the question 'i<ts been dealt with b’y the dairy research "m»B; committee of the Conue.l of Scientific and Industrial Reee-iye.l, and . the New Zealand .Dairy Produce. Cortrol Board has' aied. interested - jusejx .-in , the matter by providing , £lOO-toward® the cost of arranging a trial. Butter is to be made at the. Dairy Resear-j-i Institute at: Palmereton North and the , director of the institute. Professor. W. Riddet, and Mr. W. M- Singleton, director of the dairy division of the Department of Agriculture, are to co-operate m the work. It is hoped to produce an article which, while containing the desirable flavour, will be free from the undesirable taints which are often found when, butter haa. been- stored for any considerable time. f - ' / ' .

■ The landing of untainted .butter bn the English market has been a question -for research for some years; pest, aijd the present trial will provide interesting information in view of che particular care- being taken to mcorpota-to good flavour. . If the trial is j n-e tiie. outcomewill undoubtedly be the strengthening of the market for Now Zealand butter, and there will be. a o-reater chance of. competing >.n better . ground with tlie-Danish product..