RUSSIAN BUTTER.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18948, 6 August 1931, Page 9

RUSSIAN BUTTER.

NOT MISLEADING TO ANYONE. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 4. “Why this fuss about the Soviet imitating the New Zealand butter boxes?” asks Mr H. E. Davis, of the New Zealand Dairy Producers’ Association. “Ukraine butter has been packed in exact replicas of New Zealand cases, and is not misleading anyone. When the Soviet began exporting, an expert investigated the methods of butter packing in London and recommended the adoption of New Zealand cases and grading as ' the best. The Soviet slavishly followed even to the shape. The consignment does not differ from the previous shipment.” Mr Norton, of the Australian Dairy Board, agreed that it was absurd to accuse ,ip Soviet of disguising butter as New Zealand. Russia is in no need of trickery to gain a market. There are 200.000 cases of Siberian butter in cold storage, reducing prices. (A previous message stated:—The Soviet steamer Smolnv discharged twelve thousand barrels and four thousand boxes of Russian butterfat in London, The boxes, according to the Empire butter authority, are an exact copy of the boxes used by New Zealand. Every dimension is the same. Even tlie grading mark initialled on the outside is the same and when the outer covering is removed, there is nothing to enable tlie purchaser to distinguish between it and the New Zealand article, unless tlie grocer himself uses an identifying ticket. "Under the present State law. we have absolutely no remedy against imitation of our boxes,” said a New Zealand butter expert, who added that the incident indicated the urgent need of protective measures.]