LICENSES TO SELL BUTTER.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 January 1917, Page 2

LICENSES TO SELL BUTTER.

(To The Editor.) Shy-Why can't someone paint the ru'te about getting a license to sell butter? I sec in the papers that people must be .registered!, but I see besides that they can sell six pounds a week without beinig registered. Is this correct? lam sure all the farmers' - wives would like to know.—l am, etc. A FARMER'S WIFE. (We believe the position, to he as our correspondent states, but we cannot vouch it'or the matter. It is necessary, .however, that the butter be labelled with tlio maker's name and a. statement that t)hc butter is "separator" or "dairy" as the. case may be. This is provided for by regulations issued in 1913. So far as we have noticed, the Government has never advertised the newer regulations, and wo daresay that to plead want of publicity would be ground for mitigation of penalty incurred by any small farmer who might be charged with a breach of the new regulations. There has been in late years, a. great tendency on the part of some Government departments to shirk their moral (if not statutory) obligations to publicly notify all changes of an administrative nature that are decided upon from time to time by themselves or their ministerial heads. —Editor, Chronicle.)