OUR BUTTER IN LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1808, 22 July 1913, Page 8

OUR BUTTER IN LONDON.

BAD METHODS OP MARKETING. £?ome interesting remarks regarding tho need for an alteration in tho method of placing New Zealand butter on the English' market were made in the House of Representatives last week by Mr. Young, M.P. for Waikato. He quoted from a report by Sir Georgo Reid (High Commissioner for Australia), in which it was stated that what was termed tho Colonial Committee was conrposed of certain interested parties. These, it was stated, were tho men who met every week and settled tho prices. These meeting.? were described by Sir George Reid as nothing but a farce. Passing on to another phase of the subject, Mr. Young said that inquires had shown that the English butter companies awaited the arrival of butter from Australia and New Zealand in order to select grades for blending. Many British factories, it was stated, would be absolute failures if they did not have butter from Australasia, and from New Zealand in particular, to blend with their own. It was asserted on reliable authority that tha greater portion of the New Zealand butter was used for blemding with Devonshire anil other butter, which was then sold ns tho best Devonshire, and the '%-orld's best." It was stated that if all the butter that was sold as Devonshire was such, it would take more than three hundred cows por acre to produce it. Competent authorities, tho speaker went on to say, were.of opinion that New Zealand butter was equal to Danish, but the latter, owing to superior organisation, was able to command from 2s. fid. to 15s. per cwt. more. Talcing the difference of on averngo of 10s. per cwt., this meant a difference to the producers of one penny per pound. The matter, Mr. Young urged, was one that called for the serious attention of the Government.