OUR PRODUCE IN CANADA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2631, 29 November 1915, Page 8

OUR PRODUCE IN CANADA

While in Canada,. Mr.' Mark Cohen, of Dunedin, saw a.vnmriber of things that ;''inade him .Jbiiik.-hard.'' Ho says if is quite, oertaiii.that somo of our dairying » fair deal there. A'.'.casein.'poinfc is tho bnttef trado, in connection .with -which some tricks,,are being'played by unscrupulous tradesmen. 'At Vah- . couveiyfor instance, spurious New: land buttor is ! ,being: passed on-'tb the consumer in boxeii -of' .allegedly New •Zealand make, and; bearing'.a briind absolutely unknown/iii j as a master ■ of comes from j&lbecta ..oryspme.yhero'ieasti of 'the Rockies. H^' t^vjs;^siiured:by? : several ,Vancouver Pj&i>]s who;?.-were ' well., acquain&d • tliat "a cousi<^OTa'KJ^f'^^fci<m , V'of!;!ah 'uduiittedl.y inierioi; d^^®c';'.proiluctr'was:"; ! during .fJho; tlijio"he itA's'there passed on to the consumer as New Zealand butter. It .was only fail- to say, however, . that ; people declared that New Zealand exporters were not above sending ajrt inferior artiole across to the (Vancouver market. There was-'actual-. Iy landed in Vancouver in September :buttcr ; th'at had been graded in the precoding:}Marqli. ~Bqxcs .landed from tho ship siiid sent to , 'flio prpduee' »stores ' were foundSto' "Be *in V disgraceful. state, somo while all w#e dirty. They boro the appearance of having- been • either knocking about-.the faotory . for some - -time or •aboafcVa refrigerating works in New Zeaiapd, and ..then stored with the coals. SomoL'of his' informants bad been' sufficiently;, inquisitive to follow .' up, this ; tAipiztent in '6rd»: to' : discover'the',quality. . declared it was a product they .would never'.-.have allowed ; to' be used jijh their own table in New Zealand. JJj-if it was as 'bad'ns thaV'MrColienj'says, surely it. should have been prevented from going to Canada to give -otir products a bad name. ' If the ■ Department, 'of Commerce 'were doing its dirty it would put a stop to! tliat sort of thing, which is quite as censurable as dishonest practices on tbe. part of the retailer at the other enfl. ;

MrJjSErnost Short, president of the Manawitu _A-.\and, has on£i2 : i2£f'tff the funds of eiation. " v 1 ;

Several'members of the Mastertan A. and P. a/cqjiyass! of' : .iWcllragtife Jast sScured: ; a: jiiimbor ' show. '■