BUTTER FRAUDS
THE BLENDING EVIL. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, 'October 15. The question of whether foreign butter, blended with British, is sold as British butter, is revived by a statement of Lord Beaverbrook’s that he definitely knew that Russian butter was sent to Somerset and there blended. Three- tons of this blended butter were sold yesterday at Chelsea as British butter. Mr Gilliard Stapleton, the Chairman of the British Dairy Farmers’ organisation, states that this blending is persistently being done in the dairying areas, the blended butter then realising two pence per pound more than the pure, Australian or Nevv Zealand butter.
In preparation for the operation of the Marking Act in the middle of Feb. ruary, the Empire Dairy Council is conferring with the health inspectors throughout Britain, with a view to the strict enforcement of the Act. It will then be obliged for all butter to be branded either “British,” or “Empire” or “foreign when released by the wholesalers, thus enabling a closer check to ho kept on the unfair manipulations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1931, Page 5
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