VANCOUVER BUTTER TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1499, 23 July 1912, Page 10

VANCOUVER BUTTER TRADE.

CALIFORNIA SUBSTITUTED FOII NEW ZEALAND. The New Zealand Trade Representative at v nneouvt-r lias mtvisuil the Agricultural itepartuu-jt that compiainls having baeu nuuie to iiim that buuer other than New Zealand was being sold on the market in New Zealand wrappers, he interviewed several of the most reliable' and honest butler merchants, and requested them to support and aid him by giving their commercial travellers instructions to report to them on wholesale firms or retailers that were selling butter other than New Zealand in New Zealand wrappers. By this means he was fortunate 111 securing names of firms. Ho immediately went to the defaulters and had a conversation with thorn, giving thorn due warning that in the future, if they persisted in this practice, proceedings would be taken in Court to expose them and protect the good name anil quality of New Zealand butter. The merchants expressed themselves willing to immediately withdraw the butter; their excuse being that, there being so great a demand for New .Zealand butter, they did not consider "hat tliey were doing any harm, seeing they had been disappointed by their orders being short-shipped at the port in New Zealand. They then substituted the best which they personally thought was equal in value and quality. T am fully convinced, the Trade representative adds, that New Zealand butter is worth'cents a pound more than the C'alifornian; the latter contains too much moisture, salt, and colouring. The public who have used New Zealand butter this season will not be gulled by such a watery substitute.