LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19456, 14 January 1927, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

English buyers were admitting, said Mr G. D. Macfarlane, chairman of directors of tho New Zealand Produce Association, Ltd., of London, at Weilington this week, that the quality or New Zealand butter and cheese was improving, but some buyers complained that the butter was overloaded with preservatives. The use of “ cream neutraliser,” one of the chief causes of complaint in this respect, had diminished during the last year or two, said Mr Macfarlane, but there was still room for improvement in this direction. Most other butters sold in London were free of it, and buyers could at once tell New Zealand butter by its presence New Zealand butter, however, had good keeping qualities, which gave it-an advantage. Tho allotment ox butter to his association under dairy control was based on the quantities handled for the three years prior to its coming into operation. Now that prices were fixed, tho Co-operative Wholesale Society of Groat Britain, an enormous concern, with a half-yearly turnover of £39,000,000, ■ would gladly take all its supplies from his association, but the restricted allotment was sadly insufficient. In tho opinion, ot Mr Macfarlane, there was room for improvement in the system of collecting cream in New Zealand, where overlapping seemed to have become intensified of recent years. 1

The revision and bringing np to date of Sievier’s geographical works is the task which Professor W. Geisler, oi the University of Hall©, in Saxony, is at present in New Zealand to accomplish. One out of the six volumes of bievier’s works (published in 1902) deals with Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea, and it is with the revision ol this one that the professor is concerned. He has already spent some time in Australia, crossing the continent no fewer than five times, and during his month’s stay in the dominion lie intends to study the geographical conditions of the country, together with the development in respect to the activities of man.