Faked Australian Butter

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1330, 19 May 1905, Page 2

Faked Australian Butter

*. \ Influential Deputation Press Assooiation.—Copyright. London, May 18, Tub Now South Wules, Victorian, Queensland and Tasmanian Agents-Gonoral have iutorviowed Mr. Ailwyn Followos, President of the Board of Agrioulture, and represented the injustice done by tho sale of faked Ausiraliau butter. Mr Mlowoa, in a sympathetic reply, promised to do his utmost to moot Iho colonies' wishes. He said he oxpectod that tho Butter Bill would be read a second time almost immediately, Mr Beeves, Agent-Gontval for Nf\v Zealand, also attended the butter deputation, Mr Feliowes was sanguino that tho Bill would bo passed.

[Australian bmter is adulterated in England and Holland by means of a patented process, whereby the woight is increased '2B per cent, by substances used in-Lhe prooaas.]