GLASS IN BUTTER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20585, 26 November 1936, Page 3

GLASS IN BUTTER

AMAZING CARELESSNESS Allegations of extraordinary carelessness by some dairy produce factories which had caused complaints by some of New Zealand’s best buyers of butter and cheese were made by Sir James Parr, former New Zealand High Commissioner in London, on his arrival at Auckland last week. Sir James said that large users of New Zealand dairy produce had given to him Instances of extraneous articles being found by them in New Zealand butter and cheese through sheer carelessness by certain factories. One produced a cheese with a scrubbing brush in the centre; it had got there in the process of manufacture. The same firm brought to him an envelope full of broken glass which had been part of a thermometer. It was extracted from New Zealand butter.

“I do not for a moment say that such gross carelessness is general, but that sort of thing has only to happen three or four times to do us a big injury,” said Sir James. “In London I would not have mentioned such matters publicly, but I have weighed the question of stating them publicly here, and I have come to the conclusion that they will serve to impress the warning that dairy factories cannot afford to do anything that will damage the Dominion’s reputation.”