Home Butter Market.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 282, 7 December 1901, Page 3

Home Butter Market.

(By Telegraph —Press Association.) Wellington, last night. Mr Cameron, Inspector of Now Zealand produce at Home, in a report, dated Ist November, states he does not think tbore is any fea'- of Russian or Siberian butter competing with arrivals ol new season’s colonial butter. There has been, and still is, good inquiry for the choicest colonial. Mr Cameron also reports that while under examination by a committee appointed by the British Agriculture Department, lie was asked whether the Now Zealand Government would uphold the Department in any decision they might come to in fixing the legal standard for the amount of moisture in butter, and whether our Government desired a standard of 24 percent. or 12 per cent, fixed, and he replied that while ho had 'no instructions from his Government us to what their desire was he believed they would approve of the standand being fixed nearer to 12 than 24, and that he thought the Government would uphold the Homo Department in any decision which would tend to honest trading. Mr Cameron says that the dismissal of

tho case against an English firm for selling butter with an excess of moisture, while legally correct, will enable anyone who purchases fine dairy Netv Zealand butter to add water to it and work it up,

thus enabling him to sell it at a low retail price and thereby bringing competition of cheap butter against tho pure article at a high price, and also possibly hurting its reputation.