BRITAIN’S DIET

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 February 1935, Page 4

BRITAIN’S DIET

VALUE OF BUTTER. ' (London Correspondent.) T LONDON, 15th January.

The physical education of the people, particularly their nutrition; the extension of the public services for protecting the national health; and the advocacy of a wider consumption of the more nourishing kinds of foodstuffs, will, it is indicated, all be prominent in British domestic interests during 1935. For New Zealand —Britain ’s foremost supplier of butter and cheese, as well as of lamb —this is of great importance. Professor J. A. Nixon, Professor of Medicine in the University of Bristol, recently urged a much wider consumption of butter, because of its present cheapness and high nutritive value. At the same tiiVe he urged that the sale of margarindf as a food should be prohibited. -i It is expected that the example set by London in establishing nutrition centres for school children will be fallowed generally throughout the country. The London agency of thqafcNew Zealand Dairy Produce Board fiTO'Tost no time in placing before the authorities of the London County Council the claims of butter, particularly of grassfed Empire butter, as a cheap and highly nourishing article of diet. The marking of butter has again become an issue. The Middlesex f!'j.mty Council mentions in its that during 1934 it successfully conducted sixteen prosecutions for infringements of the butter marking order in its area.

In seven eases, butter from Siberia, the Ukraine, Latvia and Lithuania was sold without being marked as “imported.” Siberian butter was twice described as Australian or New Zealand butter. In two cases the printed wrappers op imported butter were deliberately removed, the butter being rewrapped and sold as .“farmhouse” produce.