ENGLISH PRODUCE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1932, Page 6

ENGLISH PRODUCE

LORD BLEDISLOE’S FARM. A NOTABLE DISPLAY. LONDON, June 13. Cheese from Lord Bleciis'.oe's Gloucestershire farm are being exhibited and -sold at Harrods’ .Stores this week, where there is a notable display of home-grown produce. Leading agriculturists, stoek-ra’sers, and tfuit-gf’owers of /Great Britain are represented/ and the; remarkable strides that have been made in recent years by the Home producers in • tandardisatian and packing are weL demonstrated. Messrl Harrods consider this their fourth annual “Home Produce Week” to be the best and ■ most representative yet held,’ and the whole of the grocery and provision department has been set apart to exhibit the produce.

One section of 56<!b cheeses from the New Zealand Governor-General > farm are set out attractively on a lo :g platform. The other sections are l-jlb cheeses, which are a great attraction to the ordinary buyer. The price is Is. 6d per lb. The cheese .. and butter expert at the stores remarked: “They -are very fine cheeses.” ..

Only two commodities in the exhibition are not home produce. They are Australian and New Zealand butter, finest qualityi There is a - large quantity of real Cornish butter, however, which/ty having a ready sale at Is 8d per fb. The experts remark in regard to the- butter, is" interesting : “I. would rath'er. eat the : New. Zealand butter, than - the Cornish/’ ’ To-day, finest grade Anchor brand butter is being sold by wholesalers at 110 s per cwt. The ' price, charged at 'Harrods is Is 3d per. lb. Such Is the perversity of human uatirre—at ■ least in the West End of London—that if the retail price wer e reduced in conformity with the wholesale price the sales would be reduced considerably. Next door to the New Zealand butter, it should be stated, is “finest Australian creamery butter” at Is 3d per lb.

BRITISH TINNED GOODS. It is particularly interesting to see the development of the tinned goods in England. Fifty packers .are tin : operation thi' year. They have co-operated for the supply of tins, -and this industry has begun to flourish-jnWqrcesteiv, shire/' A year or two-ago Cnned peas were available, but not other vegetables'. Now ‘there are tinned beetroot. turnips, carrots, celery, parsnips, mixed vegetables for Russian salads, and,' indeed, practically every, common vegetable is thus prepared. A 2,Gb tin of carrots costs 9jd, and other prices may he judged from this. An ■extract from spinach is be’-ng used to preserve the colour of peas. In the meat section there • are pigs - from the -Cornwall -estate- of the -T-rin&e. of Wales, there are Hampshire Down lambs, crossbred 'Suffolk lambs, and Aberdeen An guts beef. English tongues are attractively packed in glass containers.. , • Fmsh vegetables and fruit make a fine display. The prices of the latter are not shown. They are probably usury prices, for there are fine strawberries grown at Oxford, peaches grown : n Worthing, and mushrooms grown in /Sussex. All the apples displayed are ■i fine lot, but they are extremely large. They come from Kent, and must ha\e been carefully stored throughout t!v\ winter.