BUTTER DEMAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 226, 23 September 1940, Page 9

BUTTER DEMAND.

AFTER WAR IS OVEfc. AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW. CHRISTOHURCH, this day. "I think suppliers can take comfort front the fact that butter as a foodstuff has a value which' cannot be replaced by margarine, and I believe that the post-war demand throughout Europe will be so great that there will be plenty of scope for both margarine and of the people of the United Kingdom and Europe." This statement was made by Mr. G. Macartney, chairman of directors of the Tai Tapu Co.-op. Dairy Company, Ltd., at the annual meeting, when he discussed "repeated references to the decline in butter consumption in the United Kingdom and what will happen to our produce after the war." "I am satisfied that butter has an important part to play as a human foodstuff, and whilst people may be misled by the statement that the public of the United Kingdom is not consuming the eight-ounce ration, it is well to remember the facts. "The average per capita consumption of butter in the United Kingdom, which reached its maximum in 1934-35 of 25.21b, declined to pre-war figures of approximately 241b per capita. The ration of Boz a week means a per capita consumption of 261b, and it is reasonable to expect that if this figure was not reached in peace, then, with the higher costs as obtain for all commodities in war, the spending power alone of the people would result in a reduced per capita consumption of butter."