Shipload of Butter

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 March 1911, Page 4

Shipload of Butter

AUSTRAL!AX SUMMER SITPLIKS FOR AVIXTRY ENGLAND. Says the T<ondon Daily Mail of January 1-1 till:—"When the cood ship Arawa, inward bound from Xew Zealand, reached London on Tliursdav she had within her strong iron sides 3.401.8001b of grass-fed 'butter diestined' for the Enslisili lireakfasttable. Without such contributions from the dairies nf New Zeailand and Australia England in winter would, according to experts, depend: for her butter supply upon the stall-fed output of Europe and tho. home country. Tilic reason is simple. To-day when the sloet and ruins of winter are with us in England ik? summer sun sliilies in iho Antipo:l-:.5. and the cattle are in the ihey-dey of their milk-producing seas'.in. whereas north of the Ec|uat»r cattle whit-Ii pro to ■be milk-productive must he at this time of the year carefully nurtu-ed in stalls and fed artificially.The Board of Trade returns for 190.V and 1910 show very clearly tho marked increase in our import ol butter from Australasia :— 1909.— January-November 30, GO,5J 1,15211). 191Q.--January-Novemher 30, 91.-036,70-Hbs.