IS MARGARINE INCREASING?

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 619, 23 September 1909, Page 10

IS MARGARINE INCREASING?

'■■ One, does. ; nbt' encounter' the "margarine boon' ;.iri'New Zealand-whioh. appeal to exist''in -Aus-: ".' tralia, 'although' recently a :! new margarine , - factory .h'ai. ( been' ''established.' ih-'.Wollingtori, ■/..'making two now- operating..in'.the city. •; In '':, Australia, however, the dairying apV;:jpear'to: be, growing alarmed... lt,is autharjta- /; tirely asserted .(says the,'''Sydney'.,Daily : TeJe-' v ; ;graph") that the previously bigoutput' of this ;;. article,-has,increased tenfold during.'the past :" : yenr, and '.that, Respite. .the' complacent official ' assnrances: as; to tno protection affoidcd the ■•'.:■■• public, by the ;Eure '"Foods/Act; the .majority of ''...those, who '"consume these/substitutes do so un'•'....'der'.tne;impressibn:,that they are eating bntteri V 'The opinion ofthoCo-operative. Dairy Confer.f.'.erice", and the;Parliamentary'repreSentatives ; bf VJseveral dairying districts,' who werejpreseht, . ; was that';theonly' ; ;way' ; to:put'.this'trade on a- . . legitimate, footing was' to. absolutely.'prohibit . ; .',the addition of'V'the' colouring"' inatter, : which v ... -made' margarine, a>deceptive colourable 'iniita-, *:•' tion : ; hies .the, genuine article' may'bevgathered from '.-:'■/ the' fact,..that samples of •this' substitute and

butter were submitted ■ siflo by side to the delegates—all' practical dairymen -and butter experts—and .the great 'majority failed to distinguisb. one from.'the .other! /The members of Parliament were also put through the saine te6t, and they'were all ''plucked. '■. ,