NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4597, 5 September 1923, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

PRAISE FROM ENGLAND. At the time of the Auckland Summer Carnival promoted by the Auckland Advertising Club, a l umber of copies of the handsome souvenir programme then issued were sent by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., to its London manager, Mr J. B. Wright, 0.8. E. They were distributed by Mi’ Wright to some of the leading produce houses in Britain as indicating something of the nature of the country, from which so much of the produce they were handling came. The interest evoked in Auckland by thaJt| programme is well illustrated by the following letter" recently received by Mr W. Goodfellow, managing Director of the N.Z, Dairy Co., from Mr David Greig, who is the proprietor of 200 retail shops m LondonMr Greig has been so impressed by this evidence of Auckland’s prosperity that, as indicated in his letter, he hopes some day to visit this beautiful country. Mr Greig writes : “Dear Sir,i—l was very pleased to receive the souvenir programme of Auckland Summer Carnival, and a supplement of the ‘Waikato Times’ for March, which you kindly sent me on May 17. We were ail greatly surprized at the size of Auckland, its trade, and especially of its output of dairy products. I had no idea that you had such fine streets, such as Queen Street, Albert Street, and Hobson Street, or that you had such palatial shops and public buildings. Some of your drapery establishments are evidently the equal of our most up-to-date London houses. I was greatly impressed by the fine post office buildings, public library, and Town Hall. “What a good programme you arranged for the carnival. Everybody appears to be catered for, and I feel sure it must have been a huge success. Your climate is also wonderful. There must be a great future in store for Auckland. We here in London know a little of the quality of Auckland, and the goods she produces, such as butter and cheese. Personally T do not think there is any finer quality of butter or cheese produced in the world than tyiat which New Zealand produces, and when I say New Zealand I mean Auckland, because from Auckland we obtain Anchor butter. ‘ The great rival of New Zealand butter has been Danish, but this yeai the margin between Anchor and Danish has almost vanished. Only the other day I was speaking to some Danish butter importers and I asked it,hem what they thought of Anchor butter. They told me they preferred it to Danish. I was rather surprised at this admission, and yet it is only endorsing what many othjer people are saying and proving that Anchoi butter is the great and only rival ot Danish, if not its superior., “ I feel certain thaif if New Zealand in the future takes as great an interest in the production of her products, and as great a caze in the handling a,nd marketing of them, as she has hitherto done, then her products will lead the markets here in England as regards quality and price. The great advantage that New Zealand butter and cheese possess over any other butter and cheese we handle, is that the texture and quality is far superior to any of them. There is more stamina in New Zealand products.