THE GRIP OF MARGARINE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1097, 15 May 1913, Page 4

THE GRIP OF MARGARINE.

Mr J. M. Muir, of the firm of Messrs Joseph Nathan and Cc., who has recently returned to Wellington from a fourteenmonths’ tour abroad, commenting on the somewhat disappointing prices which have been offering for New Zealand dairy produce on the London market this season, says that, as far as butter was concerned, the cause might be ascribed to .the increased spending power of the people. In Mr Muir’s opinion New Zealand dairy farmers are hardly likely to see butter as high again in London as it was the year before }ast, the day of fancy prices, in his opinion, being over. However, prices would always be good, as New Zealand butter on quality would be able to hold its own. It was wonderful the grip the margarine trade bad secured in the Old Country, especially in London. For cooking purposes it was a really fine article. The people who were pushing the trade were full of enterprise, and bad the

capital to enable them to boom their product, the result being that the consumption of margarine was going ahead by leaps and bounds. *T do not think for a moment.” said Mr Muir, ‘‘that it will ever materially injure the New Zealand butter trade, as the Dominion should always be able to hold her own, provided the quality is maintained, but it will prevent anyi possibility of fancy prices being obtained again.”