TINNED BUTTER
Production Under Review MINISTER’S MOVE CREATES SURPRISE Last week the late Minister of Marketing, Mr. Barclay, announced that the whole matter of tinning butter for overseas parcels was-to 'be brought under review, and he added that if the deterioration indicated by correspondents and by departmental investigations were correct it was not at ail certain whether the tinning of butter for export would be authorized in future. The prospect of an embargo being placed on the preparation of butter for sending abroad in this way has caused widespread surprise, for many people have made a practice of sending butter to relatives and friends in Great Britain, the United States and elsewhere, and the receipt of the butter has given the greatest pleasure. Its condition was said to be perfect. A correspondent of a northern, paper has stated that practically since the outbreak of the war he had forwarded tins of butter to a brother in England aud, though in some instances delivery was delayed for many weeks, the quality of lhe butter o:a arrival had been splendid. There had not been one instance of a loss of quality. Wellington residents who posted tins of butter td relatives in Scotland last October, hoping that they would be delivered by the New Year, learned that for some unknown reason the parcels d'id not f each their 'destination till the first week in February, but the butter was in perfect condition. A northern firm which has an output of over 100,900 tins of .vacuumpacked butter annually, all for dispatch overseas, including tropical countries, has not had one complaint with regard to quality. But it has received, as have many individual senders, letters expressing appreciation of the flavour, texture and condition of the product. A questionnaire was included in many packages in order to ascertain if the contents arrived in good order. The head of this firm explained that, only the best spring and summer butters were used for this purpose, and he expressed the opinion that any butter which had been the subject, of ,
complaint might have been manufactured from winter butterfat.
What seems certain is that many people wish to continue the practice of sending a tin of butter to relatives and friends abroad, for they have invariably had good reports of the produce and know the real pleasure which the New Zealand produce gives.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 4
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394TINNED BUTTER Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 4
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