BRITISH POLITICS.
BLENDED BUTTER BILL. (United Press Association—By Electric Te*egraph~Oopyrigbt). (Received this dav at 9. a.m.) LONDON, March 25. In the Commons Air Oswald Lewis’ Blended Butter Bill was read the first time. The principal provision is the compulsory use of the word “Blended” on wrappers. Lewiss pointed out that last year eighty thousand tons of butter was blended in Britain, of which sixty thousand tons consisted of inferior butter from Poland, Latavia, Siberia and other foreign countries and.sixteen thousand tons were good quality from Australia and New Zealand. The addresses on the wrappers made people think they were buying local butter.
Earlier in the day the Conservative Parliamentary Agricultural Committee received a deputation, representing Australian, New Zealand, Irish Free State and South African butter producers, protesting against the fraudulent sale of blended butter from foreign countries.
The meeting adoted a resolution urginnr the Minister of Agriculture to inMitute an inquiry under the Merchandise Marks Act.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1930, Page 5
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