BUTTER PRICES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4407, 28 April 1922, Page 1

BUTTER PRICES.

A TARANAKI SUGGESTION.

Although a slight improvement has been noticed in the butter market, the prices are •still low. A correspondent to a Taranaki paper proposes how better prices might be obtained and so relieve ,a little of the depression. He writes as follows 1: At present you send the butter in 56ih. boxes. If some of it were put in 281 b boxes and put in Üb. blocks, and have the words “New Zealand produce” printed on each wrapper, it would be much more convenient for the shopkeeper to handlet also would suit a lot of shopkeepers to buv 281bs. and gc.t it fresh, than to ha-ve 561bs, and go stale before they can sell it. Fremsh boxes have 241bs. in rolls. I would like to mention that it would command a far better pr’ce if it could, be sent every month all the year round, as the public like to be able to buy the same kind or butter and don’t mind paying the price, providing it is good. It is a well known fact in the trade that New Zealand butter is some of the' finest that comes on the London market. Having it done up in lib. blocks it would stop a lot, of the butter being sold as some other kind- Now a Jot of it is sold as Somerset butter. One large firm buys tons of Russian and Siberian butter (cheap salt). They wash it and mix New Zealand butter with it to get the flavour, colour it, and sell it as Somerset butter. They send it out in lib. blocks, and it is the same colour and flavour all the year round. Lots of the New Zealand butter is put in %lb. prints and sold as dairy butter from the west of England, not as New Zealand. I would suggest that you have a- standard butter paper with a smart showy farm sketch'printed on it, and "finest New Zealand produce ’ ? printed dn it, and you would soon find all England after it .1 am, etc, — W. H. Parr, Opunake.