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Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1925, Page 2

Tin: world’s butter championship, as decided at the Auckland Winter Exhibition, very happily has been won by a New Zealand factory. It is proved that quantity and quality are not inseparable in butter production, for it is not one of the great factories handling an immense supply of cream which liears the palm, hut a small one in the northern part of the "Wellington Province. Of the championship contest it helps to show the world the quality of New Zealand butter; it also teaches the Dominion producer that the world is full of eager competitors. A Queensland exhibitor gained second place. Other Australian factories were high on the list, while Ireland supplied second place among the contestants from aliioad. As Air Carroll, the Australian expert has said, there is evidence in all the countries competing of a keen desire to make their product suitable for the London market. The very presence of their butter in so distant a land as X’ew Zealand shows that they are missing nothing which will help t-hem in the attainment of their desire. The fact that X’cw Zealand won and filled many other leading places should in no circumstances he held as justification for relaxing efforts to improve the quality of the butter output. The additional fact that overseas competitors were so numerous, so keen, and so well-equipped makes it all the more imperative that the good light for butter butler and still better butter should continue. Factories great and small, whether thev competed or not, should find in this eventan inspiration and a warning. Ihe successes won prove that N<’" Zealand methods in the main :ir ' -camd. The list of competitors and their achievements prove that there are others in the field who will not ho content to see the Dominion’s present supremacy remain unchallenged. The race for first place is under way in the open market as well as in the open championship. Let this Dominion see to it- that no antagonist is forgotten, and that no legitimate means of outpacing him is overlooked. If that lesson is read Irom it. the worlds butter championship contest will have done the greatest pnssibe good to the dairying industry of X'ew Zealand.