N.Z. BUTTER IN LONDON

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2306, 13 November 1914, Page 8

N.Z. BUTTER IN LONDON

■(%. tie' Editor.) :. K .' • , ; I'r,':-'< : Bifjrr l was t interested , in , reading the ': .bxtract'froin'a letter,of a 'New "Zea- ;. lander-jin London oil the subject of.New ■•/"Zealand..: butfer in your> issue '■ of ..-this';..:.clate>.» The' statement made.by MsEng-[flisli-friends to the offect\that New- Zea- , \; /laiid butter was only, fit for cooking jiur- , i no'ddubt made;in good faith,; :.;.'diie.'ent?fely to ignorance.! .1 .doubt very f-. much .whether his English■ friends have j S ever > knowingly' tasted; '; New . Zealand, K',butter. ; .of tbe!first grade, and' I.do not' j'.y .think !;■ am when I' say p.':-,that ■',hoi) one English persoti in.'a- thou- '■ v : sand lias done* so knowing it to be firstJ,.': grade : New; Zualand.*. .Tliey have either it'-as,;' ibest fresh" or "best; salt"' 'il: or ;Sanish, or most probably to a -blend "decribe'd as "best .Devonshire." ' Dur r tweJity'years connection with i.'.New, Zealand London it is : i Biirprismg.'how few; reputable firms re- ' :'tail>New Zealand bntter as' such. Ibe- ';! ''lieve they could...be counted ~on ■'-.-.the ■.:. fingers /of : one , hand. ■'/■' ■■: .-"■ >!". /- . : ,'.. '■■■, 'Tbe.'/directdrs of. your .leading; New .;, Zealajid: dairy; factories'-know ■the.posii;; 'tionV: perfectly, for. not a-few of them |;; liaye' during .the last few-years mado a; 1..} close; study of the question -when visitr/'r ing London, and some of them no doubt , could qiioio figures showing the largei ;;'j : 'percentage of .New Zealand butter which ' is .taken for blending- purposes only! It ['•/.is.no secret that there are .several very ! largo blending, factories in the West .of , who buy up the farm-mado I ;>T«itter' to the. Western Counties and

-V'Wenij samewith a large-percentage of hi;. theNew. Zealand and Australian output, !, : ;.'which gets back to London f-■..arid provincial, centres in-.one ;-V br.iwq-pound-pats as Devon or Somerset ;■/'butter'.' ''.-.■■• •'"'.:''■'.'"..'' '■':'- ' :■ • ■ ; .Ijliave.va friend who buys .upwards ■ :bf 1000'b6xes,of Neiy Zealand and Aus-i'.tralian-.butter every', week during . the ';.-I Foasqiv on tlin open market in Tooley '/Street for this- purpose/. It 'is almost ' Euperfliious for mo to add'.that by/con- .. timiing tbeir present system of.dispps.ing of their stiasoiv's output in.'advance ■ !, to . merchants in .Tooley, : Streetj'' :: New :."• Zealand dairy factories : virtually;.aian- . don all further iritereat | .in,theiripro- - ducts, and it is therefore, not surprising ;.. .. that' New Zenlanders visiting the' Old j: Country receive a shock' '■■' ylieii told by their friends at Home that ;, New Zealand butter is only fit for cookf/. .ingJ For mairy yenrs.past I have.used ' nothing, but New Zealand butter when f: iii season in ray own household, which '■yriiaVo purchased by the 561b. box from Tooley Street and cut up and disfcri- • lmted Smongst my friends and neigh-fv-bours.;in: tho London suburbs. I hayo i-/:even.gene so fa-r as to send an occa- '' ; sional box to: my own dairyman in the '■■London suburbs, who has been only too : -■'■■"'pleased/t<r £€*■'and retail same to his i';'■ pustomers, but I doubt very much ;, -whether he hss sold it to them as Now -.^^ '/;■; November 1914. ;■■'. ; :,.